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The EU’s Subordinated Agency Administration and the Rise of Executive Power at European Level

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Establishing separate executive bodies of a confederation or of a nascent federation of states (outside a council of ministers) seems in many respects to be the ‘hard case’ of institution building. The reason for this may be that it creates a capacity for action and execution of policies and not just for talk and formal decision making and that the action of separate executive bodies may be perceived as particularly threatening by constituent governments less eager to transfer power upward. It seems to have been easier to form (parliamentary) assemblies and courts of justice.

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  1. Department of Political Science and ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway

    Morten Egeberg (Professor of Political Science)

  2. Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway

    Maria Martens (Senior Advisor)

  3. University of Copenhagen, Denmark

    Jarle Trondal (Honorary Professor)

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  1. German University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer, Germany

    Michael W. Bauer (Jean Monnet Professor and Chair of Comparative Public Administration and Policy Analysis) (Jean Monnet Professor and Chair of Comparative Public Administration and Policy Analysis)

  2. Department of Political Science and Management, University of Agder, Norway

    Jarle Trondal (Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, Professor of European Studies) (Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, Professor of European Studies)

  3. ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway

    Jarle Trondal (Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, Professor of European Studies) (Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, Professor of European Studies)

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Egeberg, M., Martens, M., Trondal, J. (2015). The EU’s Subordinated Agency Administration and the Rise of Executive Power at European Level. In: Bauer, M.W., Trondal, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of the European Administrative System. European Administrative Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137339898_19

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