The Politics of EU Multi-Level Administration

Abstract

Focusing on the executive branch, the EU's administration encompasses the Commission services, the EEAS, EU agencies and agency networks and other relationships to national administrations. The Panel invites Papers on the politics of structuring and staffing this administration, and on how structure and staff composition impact on (multi-level) governance processes, such as political steering and accountability, policy development, the relative importance of supranational and national concerns, the degree of harmonization of implementation practices across member states, and the possible spreading of 'good governance' across Europe.