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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.
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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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: National Administrations in EU Trade Policy
Book Subtitle: Maintaining the Capacity to Control
Authors: Johan Adriaensen
Series Title: European Administrative Governance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54767-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54766-8Published: 15 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-71451-3Published: 29 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54767-5Published: 25 May 2016
Series ISSN: 2524-7263
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7271
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 198
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Policy, European Union Politics, Trade, International Political Economy