Managing the house: The Presidency, agenda control and policy activism in the European Commission

Kassim, Hussein ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7603-8377, Connolly, Sara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6714-3493, Dehousse, Renaud, Rozenberg, Olivier and Benjaballah, Selma (2017) Managing the house: The Presidency, agenda control and policy activism in the European Commission. Journal of European Public Policy, 24 (5). pp. 653-674. ISSN 1350-1763

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Abstract

Although the importance of international organizations is well-established, the specific contribution of international administrations or secretariats to the policy outputs of wider organization is rarely investigated. Still less attention is paid to how intra-organizational factors within international administrations affect their capacity to influence those outputs. Even in the case of the European Union, where the power of the European Commission over decisional outputs has been a long-standing interest, that issue has not been fully explored. Scholars have focused on horizontal factors, but have not addressed how vertical relations may affect the Commission’s policy activism and therefore its influence on the level of EU outputs. By examining how the transformation of power relations within the Commission has changed as a consequence of the strengthening of the Commission Presidency, this paper fills that lacuna. Showing how a strong President has been able to control the Commission’s output, it demonstrates the importance of vertical relations as a key variable.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	agenda control,european commission,european union,international administrations,policy output,presidentialization
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies (former - to 2024) Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Policy & Politics Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Employment Systems and Institutions Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Research on Children and Families
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	22 Mar 2016 09:22
Last Modified:	17 Dec 2024 01:22
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/57737
DOI:	10.1080/13501763.2016.1154590

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