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  - Hustedt, Thurid
A1  - Seyfried, Markus
T1  - Co-ordination across internal organizational boundaries: how the EU Commission co-ordinates climate policies
JF  - Journal of European public policy
N2  - Through an analysis of climate policy-making in the European Commission (EU), this article argues that co-ordination in the Commission displays the same characteristics as the co-ordination across ministries in central governments, i.e., the properties of negative co-ordination. The article is based on a survey among Commission officials. Overall, the article reveals that a public administration perspective on the Commission proves invaluable to gain insights on how decisions are made at the European Union level. The article contributes to the emerging literature viewing the Commission as an ordinary bureaucracy - as opposed to a unique supranational organization.
KW  - Bureaucratic organization
KW  - climate change policy
KW  - co-ordination
KW  - Directorate General
KW  - EU policy-making
KW  - European Commission
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2015.1074605
SN  - 1350-1763
SN  - 1466-4429
VL  - 23
SP  - 888
EP  - 905
PB  - Springer Publishing Company
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -