Access, capacity and influence
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Kühn, N. S. B. & Trondal, J. (2023). Access, capacity and influence. Comparative European Politics, 2023, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41295-023-00366-0Sammendrag
Different forms of integration into the European Union (EU) call for studies of the consequences of multilevel access structures. Similar to EU member-states, government officials from associated states interact closely with EU-level administrative institutions, notably the European Commission (Commission) and EU agencies. Benefiting from a large-N survey, this study demonstrates that bureaucrats from “third-countries”, such as Norway, may exert sectoral policy influence in the EU, and that organizational features of the public administration may systematically shape such patterns. The study offers two distinct contributions to the extant literature: First, it presents original survey data on how domestic agency officials perceive their influence vis-à-vis the EUs executive branch. Secondly, it probes the effects of two distinct drivers of policy influence—bureaucrats’ access to secondary structures and requisite administrative capacities.
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