ARENA Report 02/2010
Maria Martens
The transformation processes in Europe shape and intertwine national and European institutions with implications for the character of Europe as a political order. The topic of this dissertation is the executive dimension of this political order which involves the integration of public administrative organizations across levels of government and borders.
The last decades have witnessed extensive reforms in national administrative institutions in Europe and within the EU administrative apparatus. One notable feature of these reforms has been the decentralization of tasks to semi-independent agencies. In this dissertation I explore the transformation of the European executive order by considering the role of agencies. I analyse in equal measure and interdependently both national agencies and EU-level agencies within the European administrative system, and the basic research questions are the following: To what extent, how and why do agencies at different levels of government enhance administrative integration in the EU?
ARENA Report 02/2010 (pdf)
ISBN 978-82-93137-74-0 (online) 978-82-93137-24-5 (print)