The European Commission is arguably the world's most powerful international
administration. It plays a central role in the political system of the European Union. The …

The European Commission is at the center of the European Union's political system. Within
its five-year terms each Commission proposes up to 2000 binding legal acts and therefore …

The extent to which the European Commission exercises 'political'roles in European
integration is very much up for debate. Some recent analyses of the Commission take it for …

The European Commission started out in the 1950s as a technocratic international
organization. Today, it has acquired many of the organizational features and behavioural …

This article explains why the European Union has remained strikingly cohesive during the
Brexit withdrawal negotiations by focussing on the role played by its negotiator: the …

Since politicization persists, threatening public sector governance and management, there is
a need to further understand this phenomenon and its consequences. Previous empirical …

This article contributes to the literature on the politicization of appointments to increase
political control over public bureaucracies with often substantial managerial and policy …

This article offers insights into the aggregate patterns of the geographical distribution of
professional staff in some of the major international organizations (IOs). Building on the …

International organizations'(IOs) power in sha** global governance outcomes is not only
determined by the formal delegation of tasks and issue areas but also by the necessary …

This article explores the influence of two types of signalling on the career success of civil
servants in the federal ministerial bureaucracy of Germany. Whereas 'ability …