TY - JOUR
T1 - Challenging or Enhancing the EU's Legitimacy?
T2 - The Evolution of Representative Bureaucracy in the Commision's Staff Policies
AU - Gravier, Magali
PY - 2013/10
Y1 - 2013/10
N2 - This article presents an analysis of the European Commission’s staffing policies. It focuses in particular on the extent to which, over time, the Commission has taken the criterion of nationality into account. The theoretical framework of this study is the theory of representative bureaucracy. The article shows that, although the Commission does not use a quota system, its staffing policies have evolved from a limited practice of representation to a complex, explicit, but flexible strategy of representation, which satisfies the criteria of representative bureaucracy. However, due to the duty of loyalty to which civil servants of the European Union submit, these policies only satisfy the criterion of passive representation. The article ends on an explorative note, with the hypothesis that a third type of representation exists. It suggests the creation of a third concept, linkage representation, to account for this
AB - This article presents an analysis of the European Commission’s staffing policies. It focuses in particular on the extent to which, over time, the Commission has taken the criterion of nationality into account. The theoretical framework of this study is the theory of representative bureaucracy. The article shows that, although the Commission does not use a quota system, its staffing policies have evolved from a limited practice of representation to a complex, explicit, but flexible strategy of representation, which satisfies the criteria of representative bureaucracy. However, due to the duty of loyalty to which civil servants of the European Union submit, these policies only satisfy the criterion of passive representation. The article ends on an explorative note, with the hypothesis that a third type of representation exists. It suggests the creation of a third concept, linkage representation, to account for this
KW - European Union
KW - Public Administration
KW - Monetary Unions
KW - Organizational Inertia
KW - Evaluation
KW - Study and Teaching
KW - Rational-legal Authority
U2 - 10.1093/jopart/mut024
DO - 10.1093/jopart/mut024
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1053-1858
VL - 23
SP - 817
EP - 838
JO - Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
JF - Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
IS - 4
ER -