The European Commission and Bureaucratic Autonomy: Europe's Custodians

by Antonis A. Ellinas and Ezra N. Suleiman

Book Overview

This book examines the struggle of the European Union bureaucracy to maintain its autonomy in an increasingly complex institutional setting and adverse political environment. Using an original survey of nearly two hundred top European Commission officials, it shows that the European Union is a coherent organization that shares a common culture of supranationalism. The European Union's multicephalous structure of political authority limits the capacity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107689716
• ISBN13: 9781107689718
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"