National Administrations in Eu Trade Policy - Maintaining the Capacity to Control

This book studies the relationshipbetween administrative capacity and a member state's influence in the EuropeanUnion. More specifically, it studies member states' ability to exert controlover the European Commission during trade negotiations. But what determinesadministrative capacity and how do member states ensure their preferences aredefended during trade negotiations? A combination of qualitative fieldwork and survey-analysisprovides the answer. Interviews in Belgium, Poland, Estonia and Spain offer aprivileged insight into the functioning of national trade administrations andits effects on their behavior in the Council of Ministers. Through survey data,these findings are further corroborated. The book is aimed at a readershipinterested in EU decision-making, negotiation theory, comparative publicadministration and the international political economy of trade.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Member States in EU Trade Negotiations.- Chapter 2: Theoretical Framework.- Chapter 3: Signalling Control.-Chapter 4: Exploring National Trade Administrations.- Chapter 5: Measuring Administrative Capacity.- Chapter 6: Administrative Capacity and Control. 

About the author

Johan Adriaensen is a research coordinator at
the Center for European Research in Maastricht (CERiM) at Maastricht
University, the Netherlands. He has been a guest professor at the Universities of Antwerp and
Leuven in Belgium. His research interests encompass international political economy, the institutions of the European Union and scholarship on teaching and
learning.

Summary

This book studies the relationshipbetween administrative capacity and a member state’s influence in the EuropeanUnion. More specifically, it studies member states’ ability to exert controlover the European Commission during trade negotiations.

Product details

• Authors: Johan Adriaensen
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.04.2016
• EAN: 9781349714513
• ISBN: 978-1-349-71451-3
• No. of pages: 213
• Series: European Administrative Governance; Springer Palgrave Macmillan; European Administrative Governance
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; B, Business, Political Science, Economics, International Relations, trade, European Union, Politics & government, Political Science and International Studies, Public Policy, Political Economy, Industries, Commerce, EU (European Union), International Political Economy, European Union Politics