A Responsive Technocracy?: EU Politicisation and the Consumer Policies of the European Commission

by Christian Rauh

This book challenges the common image of the European Commission as an insulated technocracy immune to political pressures. Based on an innovative combination of public opinion, protest and media data, it first demonstrates that European integration has become increasingly politicised since the 1990s. Against this background, the Commission is now much more concerned about the public appeal of its policies. That, however, challenges and contradicts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785522493
• ISBN13: 9781785522499
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: ECPR Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"