@inbook{3c38ad8b3a434e7caeff21b647caac5c,
title = "The von der Leyen Commission: An Early Assessment",
abstract = "This chapter aims to situate the von der Leyen Commission historically and comparatively. As well as providing a provisional performance of the administration at mid-term, it assesses what the appointment and achivements of Ursula von der Leyen as a non-Spitzenkandidat demonstrates about the institutionalisation of presidentialised and personalised leadership of the Commission.",
keywords = "Commission president, Covid-19 pandemic, European commission, First occurrence of key word, Most relevant occurrence of key word, Presidentialisation, Six priorities, Ursula von der Leyen",
author = "Hussein Kassim",
note = "Funding Information: I should like to thank participants of workshops convened by the College of Europe on 26 January 2021 and the Europal network on 29 April 2021 for helpful comments on an earlier draft. I have benefitted from innumerable conversations on themes covered in this chapter with Sara Connolly, Michael W. Bauer, Pierre Bocquillon, Brigid Laffan, Didier Georgakakis, Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos, Sandrino Smeets, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric Merand and Martin Westlake. My greatest debt is to officials in the European Commission and the Council Secretariat, who very kindly agreed to answer questions on the topic of this paper on a strictly non-attributable basis, and the staff in both who participated in four major research projects. The usual disclaimer applies. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-12338-2_9",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-031-12337-5",
series = "Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "169--193",
editor = "Olivier Costa and {van Hecke}, Steven",
booktitle = "The EU Political System After the 2019 European Elections",
}