Multilevel Union Administration

1. Front Matter

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2. Europe’s Executive Branch of Government in the Melting Pot: an Overview

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   Pages 1-16

3. The Institutional Architecture of the EU and the Transformation of European Politics

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   Pages 17-30

4. Balancing Autonomy and Accountability: Enduring Tensions in the European Commission’s Development

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   Pages 31-50

5. The College of Commissioners: Executive Politics as Usual?

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   Pages 51-65

6. EU Committee Governance between Intergovernmental and Union Administration

   • Morten Egeberg, Guenther F. Schaefer, Jarle Trondal

   Pages 66-85

7. Towards a Multilevel Union Administration? The Decentralization of EU Competition Policy

   • Øivind Støle

   Pages 86-102

8. Administering Information: Eurostat and Statistical Integration

   • Ulf Sverdrup

   Pages 103-123

9. National Regulators between Union and Governments: a Study of the EU’s Environmental Policy Network IMPEL

   • Maria Martens

   Pages 124-142

10. The European Commission and the Integration of Food Safety Policies across Levels

    • Trygve Ugland, Frode Veggeland

    Pages 143-162

11. National Limits to Transnational Networking? The Case of the Danish IT and Telecom Agency

    • Gitte Hyttel Nørgård

    Pages 163-179

12. Transnational Networks Meet National Hierarchies: the Cases of the Italian Competition and Environment Administrations

    • Dario Barbieri

    Pages 180-193

13. Conclusion

    • Morten Egeberg

    Pages 194-200

14. Back Matter

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This book shows that the executive branch of government has added a supranational level, namely the European Commission, that increasingly seems to operate independently from national governments. Case studies illuminate how a genuine Union administration might evolve.

• Europe
• European Commission
• European Politic
• European Politics
• Eurostat
• Governance
• Government
• european union politics

• University of Oslo, Norway

  Morten Egeberg

DARIO BARBIERI PhD Student at L. Bocconi University, Milan, Italy MARIA MARTENS PhD Student at ARENA-Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway GITTE HYTTEL NORGARD Formerly affiliated to ARENA-Centre of European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway GUNTHER F. SCHAEFER Formerly Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy, European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA), Maastricht, The Netherlands OIVIND STOLE Formerly affiliated to ARENA-Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway ULF SVERDRUP Senior Researcher at ARENA-Centre for European Studies, University of Olso, Norway JARLE TRONDAL Director of the Centre for European Studies, Agder University College in Kristiansand, Norway TRYGVE UGLAND Assistant Professor of Political Studies, Bishop's University, Canada FRODE VEGGELAND Senior Researcher, Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Oslo, Norway

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