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The Maintenance of Executive Capacity in Germany: Revisiting the Annual Budget of the European Union
Author(s) -
Walzenbach G.P.E.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.313
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1467-9299
pISSN - 0033-3298
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9299.00261
Subject(s) - german , european union , government (linguistics) , german government , process (computing) , executive branch , executive board , accounting , business , public administration , economic policy , economics , economic system , political science , management , computer science , geography , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , politics , law , operating system
This article considers the executive capacity of the German government to coordinate the annual budget of the European Union in the post‐Maastricht period. It identifies and elaborates two broad sets of factors essential to the development of this routinized policy process: internal executive coordination through specialized administrative techniques and coordination with external actors through multi‐level institutional adjustments. The emergent picture shows the success of the Federal government in maintaining its executive capacity within an Europeanized policy sector.