TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hustedt, Thurid
A1  - Seyfried, Markus
T1  - Inside the EU Commission
BT  - Evidence on the Perceived Relevance of the Secretariat General in Climate Policy-Making
JF  - JCMS - Journal of common market studies
N2  - This article studies the perception of the EU Commission's Secretariat General in policy-making. Recently, research on EU institutions devotes increasing attention to analyzing structures and procedures of decision-making in EU institutions, most notably the EU Commission. Conventionally, the EU Commission is portrayed as a fragmented organization, divided along the lines of staff nationality, sectoral responsibilities and cabinets and General Directorates (DGs). The Secretariat General has long been viewed a weak actor that is hardly able or motivated to steer internal decision-making. However, recent research indicates a changing role of the Secretariat General as a pro-active broker and last arbiter. This article studies how the Secretariat General is perceived by the DGs in policy coordination and argues that this perception depends on the pattern of political authority, bureaucratic roles and the relevance and the alternatives prevailing in the policy field. The article is based on data from a survey among Commission officials.
KW  - EU Commission
KW  - Secretariat General
KW  - co-ordination
KW  - centralization
KW  - climate policies
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12605
SN  - 0021-9886
SN  - 1468-5965
VL  - 56
IS  - 2
SP  - 368
EP  - 384
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kuhlmann, Sabine
A1  - Seyfried, Markus
A1  - Brajnik, Irena Baclija
T1  - Mayors and administrative reforms
JF  - Political Leaders and Changing Local Democracy
N2  - In recent decades, a wave of administrative reforms has changed local governance in many European countries. However, our knowledge about differences as well as similarities between the countries, driving forces, impacts, perceptions, and evaluation of these reforms is still limited. In the chapter, the authors give an overview about mayors’ perceptions and evaluations of two major reform trajectories: (a) re-organisation of local service delivery and (b) internal administrative/managerial reforms. Furthermore, differences between (groups of) countries as well as similarities among them are shown in these two fields of administrative reform. Finally, the authors tried to identify explanatory factors for specific perceptions of administrative reforms at the local level.
KW  - New public management
KW  - Local administrative systems
KW  - Administrative reform
KW  - Public-private partnerships
Y1  - 2017
SN  - 978-3-319-67410-0
SN  - 978-3-319-67409-4
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67410-0_13
SP  - 387
EP  - 409
PB  - Palgrave
CY  - Basingstoke
ER  -