Politicization within the European Commission's bureaucracy
Politicization within the European Commission's bureaucracy
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DOI：
10.1177/0020852312445022
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发表时间：
2012-09-01
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Ege, Joern
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作者：
Bauer, Michael W.;Ege, Joern
在制度变迁和组织改革的背景下，我们分析了欧盟委员会官僚机构的政治化。政治化一般可界定为将政治考虑引入人力资源管理和公务员行为，以取代官僚中立。直接政治化和专业政治化的概念是我们分析的Vantage点。经验数据来自文件分析和最近对委员会官员进行的在线和半结构化调查。我们表明，委员会的官僚，虽然他们是高度敏感的政治方面的工作，是不那么政治化，因为金诺克改革比以前。虽然委员会的委员团似乎确实在政治上对超国家同行和国家政府更加敏感，但委员会的官僚机构可以说是政治化程度较低，或者根据目前的辩论，在新韦伯意义上是相当有用的。
Against a background of institutional change and organizational reform, we analyze the politicization of the European Commission's bureaucracy. Politicization can generally be defined as the substitution of bureaucratic neutrality by introducing political considerations into the human resource management and behaviour of civil servants. The concepts of direct and professional politicization serve as vantage points for our analysis. The empirical data are taken from documentary analysis and recent online and semi-structured surveys of Commission officials. We show that Commission bureaucrats, although they are highly sensitive to the political side of their job, are less politicized since the Kinnock reforms than before. While the College of the Commission seems to have indeed become more politically responsive to its supranational peers and national governments, the Commission's bureaucracy can be characterized as weakly politicized or, according to current debates, as quite instrumental in a Neo-Weberian sense.