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Experiments in Supranational Institutionbuilding: The European Commission as a Laboratory

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  • Morten Egeberg

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International governmental organisations are governed by ministers who have their primary institutional affiliation at the national level. The European Commission represents a notable organisational innovation in the way that executive politicians at the top, i.e. the commissioners, have their primary affiliation to the international level. Thus, the Commission constitutes a laboratory for experiments in supranational institutionbuilding: What is the relative importance of nationality and organisational position as regards explaining actual behaviour? Concerning Commission officials, nationality seems to play a minor role. Nationality matters somewhat more regarding commissioners’ behaviour, but makes up only one of several components of their highly compound role.

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  • Morten Egeberg, 2012. "Experiments in Supranational Institutionbuilding: The European Commission as a Laboratory," ARENA Working Papers p0318, ARENA.
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    1. Selianko, Iulii and Andrea Lenschow, 2015. "Energy policy coherence from an intra-institutional perspective: Energy security and environmental policy coordination within the European Commission," European Integration online Papers (EIoP), European Community Studies Association Austria (ECSA-A), vol. 19, January.
    2. Bart Van Ballaert, 2015. "The Politics behind the Consultation of Expert Groups: An Instrument to Reduce Uncertainty or to Offset Salience?," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 3(1), pages 139-150.
    3. Jarle Trondal & Zuzana Murdoch & Benny Geys, 2015. "Representative Bureaucracy and the Role of Expertise in Politics," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 3(1), pages 26-36.
    4. Jon Birger Skjærseth, 2017. "The European Commission’s Shifting Climate Leadership," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 17(2), pages 84-104, May.

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    European Commission; nationality;

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