Handbook on European Union Public Administration

Edited by Gijs Jan Brandsma, Associate Professor of Public Administration, Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, the Netherlands

Contents

1 Public administration in the European Union 1
Gijs Jan Brandsma
PART I THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON EU PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
2 The federal core of EU multilevel administration 11
Eva G. Heidbreder
3 New institutionalism 22
Tom Delreux
4 Constructivism and public administration research in the EU 34
Sabine Saurugger
5 Organization theory, public administration, and the study of multilevel
executive order 45
Jarle Trondal
PART II INSTITUTIONS OF EU PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
6 The administration of the European Commission 64
Hussein Kassim, Sara Connolly, Pierre Alayrac and Merve Uzunalioglu
7 The administrative system of the European Parliament (EP): an
understudied engine room 95
Anna-Lena Högenauer and Christine Neuhold
8 The General Secretariat of the Council 108
Hussein Kassim and Sara Connolly
9 State of the art in the study of EU agencies: the role of trust as a turning point 138
Jana Gómez Díaz and Ixchel Pérez-Durán
10 European Administrative Networks 155
Reini Schrama, Ellen Mastenbroek and Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen
11 The Court of Justice of the European Union 169
Christian Adam
12 The European Court of Auditors 184
Paul Stephenson and Maria-Luisa Sánchez-Barrueco
13 The European Ombudsman in the EU’s administrative and institutional
framework 203
Nikos Vogiatzis
PART III POLICY PROCESSES IN EU PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
14 Agenda-setting in EU policy-making 216
Sebastiaan Princen
15 Impact assessments 229
Jan Pollex
16 Coordination in the European Commission 239
Jens Blom-Hansen, Daniel Finke and Roman Senninger
17 Delegated and implementing acts: rule-making by the Commission 253
Gijs Jan Brandsma
18 Transposition of European Union legislation 266
Tiziano Zgaga and Asya Zhelyazkova
19 Practical implementation of European Union policies by member state
administrations and street-level bureaucrats 279
Eva Thomann and Tiziano Zgaga
20 Member states’ compliance and enforcement in the EU: concepts,
drivers and future research avenues 294
Asya Zhelyazkova
21 Evaluations, consultations and networks: formal and informal routes for
policy feedback? 309
Pieter Zwaan, Daniel Polman and Stijn van Voorst
PART IV LEGITIMACY OF EU PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
22 Better regulation 322
Jan Pollex and Stijn van Voorst
23 Transparency of EU public administration: harbinger of legitimacy or
fig leaf for its absence? 332
Maarten Hillebrandt
24 The EU’s accountability landscape 344
Anchrit Wille
25 Responsiveness 362
Christian Rauh and Reinout van der Veer
Index 377