Abstract
Although the importance of international organizations is well-established, the specific contribution of international administrations or secretariats to the policy outputs of wider organization is rarely investigated. Still less attention is paid to how intra-organizational factors within international administrations affect their capacity to influence those outputs. Even in the case of the European Union, where the power of the European Commission over decisional outputs has been a long-standing interest, that issue has not been fully explored. Scholars have focused on horizontal factors, but have not addressed how vertical relations may affect the Commission’s policy activism and therefore its influence on the level of EU outputs. By examining how the transformation of power relations within the Commission has changed as a consequence of the strengthening of the Commission Presidency, this paper fills that lacuna. Showing how a strong President has been able to control the Commission’s output, it demonstrates the importance of vertical relations as a key variable.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 653-674 |
Number of pages | 22 |
Journal | Journal of European Public Policy |
Volume | 24 |
Issue number | 5 |
Early online date | 19 Apr 2016 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Keywords
- Agenda control
- European Commission
- European Union
- international administrations
- policy output
- presidentialization
Profiles
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Sara Connolly
- Norwich Business School - Professor of Personnel Economics
- Institute for Volunteering Research - Member
- Centre for Research on Children and Families - Member
- Volunteering and the Market - Group Lead
- Employment Systems and Institutions - Member
Person: Group Lead, Research Group Member, Research Centre Member, Academic, Teaching & Research
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Hussein Kassim
- School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies - Professor of Politics
- Political, Social and International Studies - Member
- Centre for Competition Policy - Member
- Policy & Politics - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Research Centre Member, Academic, Teaching & Research