"Les traités de Rome du 25 mars 1957 à peine signés, la Commission se mettait en place, dès le 1er janvier 1958 à Bruxelles, avec un cahier des charges touchant tous les secteurs de la vie économique des six pays fondateurs : la France, l'Allemagne, l'Italie et les trois pays du…
This is a comprehensive, integrated analysis of the wave of management reforms which have swept through many countries including Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, the UK, the USA, and the European Commission.
Since its publication in 2000, Public Management Reform has established itself as the standard text in the field, presenting a comparative analysis of recent changes in Public Management and Public Administration in a range of countries in Europe, North America, and Australasia.…
How does policy-making trigger the institutionalization of steering capacities? This book investigates this question by tackling why the European Commission expanded competences that were intentionally limited to the specific pre-accession context prior the 2004/07 EU enlargemen…
Through an analysis of four European Commission advisory committees comprising organized civil society actors, this work investigates the existence of a dichotomy between the capacity of European Commission committee governance to improve system effectiveness & provide efficienc…
Translating Institutions outlines a framework for research on translation in institutional settings, using the Finnish translation unit at the European Commission as a case study. Because of their foundational multilingualism, the institutions of the European Union could be desc…
Carolyn Ban breaks new ground by analyzing the European Commission from a public management perspective. Based on extensive interviews conducted over six years, it explores how the European Commission faced the challenge of enlargement, how it recruited and socialized thousands …