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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 relationship
between administrative capacity and a member state’s influence in the European
Union. More specifically, it studies member states’ ability to exert control
over the European Commission during trade negotiations. But what determines
administrative capacity and how do member states ensure their preferences are
defended during trade negotiations? A combination of qualitative fieldwork and survey-analysis
provides the answer. Interviews in Belgium, Poland, Estonia and Spain offer a
privileged insight into the functioning of national trade administrations and
its effects on their behavior in the Council of Ministers. Through survey data,
these findings are further corroborated. The book is aimed at a readership
interested in EU decision-making, negotiation theory, comparative public
administration and the international political economy of trade.
