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The 2004 Enlargement Staff Policy of the European Commission: The Case for Representative Bureaucracy *
Author(s) -
GRAVIER MAGALI
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
jcms: journal of common market studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.54
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1468-5965
pISSN - 0021-9886
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2008.00828.x
Subject(s) - bureaucracy , representativeness heuristic , resizing , legitimacy , commission , representation (politics) , political science , public administration , politics , european commission , european union , law , business , economic policy , social psychology , psychology
This article tests the theory of representative bureaucracy on the Commission's 2004 enlargement staff policy. It concludes that this policy matches the criteria of bureaucratic representativeness, which opens a reflection both on the political legitimacy and on the instruments of representation in the EU.