Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/9ksUOc Politics and the European Commission Actors, Interdependence, Legitimacy By: Andy Smith Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780415324076, 0415324076 eText ISBN: 9781134347445, 1134347448 Edition: 1st Pages: 248 Copyright year: 2004 Format: EPUB Available from $ 23.98 USD SKU 9781134347445R90 The European Commission is an organization which has come to fascinate or repulse a range of national politicians, journalists and social scientists. In contrast to the prevailing image of the Commission as a 'bureaucrat's paradise', however, and by using the results of original research, this book deliberately sets out to investigate this organization's relationship to politics. It does so first by developing a variety of case-studies (health, development aid, preparations for Eastern enlargement, etc.) as a means of studying the relationships, networks and interdependencies which link commissioners and Commission officials to national politicians, civil servants and interest groups. Second, by looking in detail at how the Commission publicizes its work, notably through producing public information and liaising with the media, fresh light is shone upon the complex question of the Commission's legitimacy. Politics and the European Commission provides a framework for generating new information about, and interpretations of, the power struggles at the heart of the EU. Additional ISBNs 9781280053849, 9780415429726, 1280053844, 0415429722
