Reforming the European Commission

EMMANUELLE SCHÖN-QUINLIVAN Lecturer in Politics with the Department of Government at University College Cork, Republic of Ireland. She specialises in European Union politics, public management and institutional change. She has published extensively on the impact of the Kinnock reforms on the European Commission, including in the Journal of European Public Policy.

Introduction: How to analyse administrative reforms in the European Commission 1950 – 1984: Constructing the administrative Commission 1985 – 1998: the foundations for the Kinnock reforms A novel strategy for reform Reforming public administrations: New Public Management and the White Paper From policy to practice: operationalising NPM The Secretariat General: a case study in innovation DG Regional Policy: a case study in adaptation DG Transport and Energy: a case study in resistance Conclusions: understanding heterogeneous institutional change in the Commission