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Europeanization of Sea-Level Bureaucrats. A Case of Ship Inspectors’ Training

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  • Christer Gulbrandsen

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How is the EU utilizing national bureaucracies, this paper asks. It reports findings from semi-structured interviews with ship inspectors and their superiors about international training efforts aimed at harmonizing inspections. The maritime sector, with its highly institutionalized global rule-making, may constitute an unlikely case for EU co-optation of national bureaucrats for historical, institutional and economic reasons, but by examining the work of ‘sea-level bureaucrats’ we see how the EU builds executive capacity at the lowest level of national bureaucracies and gain insight into some hitherto under-researched mechanisms of implementation and compliance in European governance. We find evidence of Europeanization of inspections, adding to the body of evidence suggesting a new international, multilevel administrative order with stronger traits of direct implementation is emerging.

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  • Christer Gulbrandsen, 2010. "Europeanization of Sea-Level Bureaucrats. A Case of Ship Inspectors’ Training," ARENA Working Papers 10, ARENA.
    • Handle: RePEc:erp:arenax:p0281
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