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ToolsConnolly, Sara and Kassim, Hussein (2024) One EU civil service or many? The European Commission and the council secretariat. European Politics and Society, 26 (2). pp. 451-479. ISSN 2374-5118
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Abstract
In scholarship on bureaucratic socialisation, length of service is frequently identified as the key variable in explaining alignment of the beliefs and values of staff members with those of the administration. This article challenges this view. Presenting analysis based on data from the European Commission and the General Secretariat of the Council–two parts of the EU administration, which draw staff from the same talent pool and are governed by the same staff regulation–and using organisational values to measure socialisation, it finds that length of service is not the only or the most important variable in explaining alignment of staff views with the organisation. It also shows not only that both staff beliefs and organisational values differ between the two bodies, but that as socialising environments the Commission and the Council Secretariat have differing impacts on their staff.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | european commission,general secretariat of the council,socialisation, staff beliefs and organisational values,sociology and political science,political science and international relations ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3312 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy and Area Studies |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jun 2026 15:03 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jun 2026 13:32 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/103284 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/23745118.2024.2420231 |
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