Reforming the Commission: between modernization and bureaucratization

Ellinas, Antonis A.; Suleiman, Ezra N.

doi:10.1080/13501760802133179

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“…Discontent among top officials about the growing body of rules and regulations, which is thought to be burdensome, frustrating and demotivating, also emerges from other studies. The findings of Scho¨n-Quinlivan (2007) and Ellinas and Suleiman (2008) indicate dissatisfaction among officials in the Commission about the tendency toward the bureaucratisation brought about by the reforms, especially with regard to financial rules; and that the reform had overshot the mark and significantly increased the level of red-tape in the institution. 6.…”

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Political–Bureaucratic Accountability in the EU Commission: Modernising the Executive

Wille¹

2010

West European Politics

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Political–Bureaucratic Accountability in the EU Commission: Modernising the Executive

Wille¹

2010

West European Politics

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“…Implementing enlargement coincided with the most relevant organizational reform the Commission has seen so far: the Kinnock reform of 2000 (Balint, Bauer et al 2008;Ellinas and Suleiman 2008;Kassim 2008;Kinnock 2004;Schön-Quinlivan 2008). This reform does not, however, play a relevant role in tracing the instruments that were developed in the enlargement context come across by other organizational units of the Commission.…”

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confidence: 89%

The Impact of Expansion on European Union Institutions

Heidbreder¹

2011

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“…There is also no formal Council committee specifically for Cohesion policy to shift the focus towards C. Mendez & J. Bachtler: Assessment of the EU Cohesion policy 755 performance concerns. This political dimension largely explains why the Commission's administrative reform programme had a strong bureaucratic logic (Ellinas and Suleiman 2008;Levy 2006), in spite of the claims about its New Public Management ideals.…”

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Administrative reform and unintended consequences: an assessment of the EU Cohesion policy ‘audit explosion’

Méndez¹,

Bachtler²

2011

Journal of European Public Policy

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This paper investigates the effects of administrative reform in the Commission on policy implementation and outcomes through a study of EU Cohesion policy auditing. It argues that the growth in audit has taken a distinctively compliance-oriented form, in contrast with the performance audit model adopted in other countries that have embraced administrative modernization agendas. Further, the link between organizational efficiency and governance effectiveness postulated by other studies of Commission administrative reform is challenged, as the underlying audit and control problem in Cohesion policy -the high error rate -remain unresolved. Lastly, the proliferation in Cohesion policy auditing is presented as a classic example of unintended consequences: originally intended to improve policy performance and accountability, it has in fact undermined the strategic performance of the policy and is even threatening its sustainability.

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Reforming the Commission: between modernization and bureaucratization

Cited by 59 publications

References 5 publications

Political–Bureaucratic Accountability in the EU Commission: Modernising the Executive

Political–Bureaucratic Accountability in the EU Commission: Modernising the Executive

The Impact of Expansion on European Union Institutions

Administrative reform and unintended consequences: an assessment of the EU Cohesion policy ‘audit explosion’

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