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dc.contributor.authorTrondal, Jarle
dc.date.accessioned2012-05-24T07:33:05Z
dc.date.available2012-05-24T07:33:05Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.identifier.issn1503-4356
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/134883
dc.description.abstractDoes the European Commission (Commission) manage to transform and re-direct the roles played by Commission civil servants? To test the old neo-functionalist claim on loyalty transfer among civil servants, this article provides fresh survey and interview data on seconded national experts in the Commission. The transformative powers of the Commission are tested by assessing the extent to which seconded national experts adopt supranational role perceptions. Theoretically, the emergence of supranational role perceptions is accounted for by considering (i) processes of pre-socialisation outside the Commission, (ii) processes of resocialisation inside the Commission, and (iii) organisational incompatibility between the Commission and domestic ministries and agencies from which the secondees originate. The empirical analysis shows that secondees evoke multiple loyalties, notably towards own profession, own DG and Unit and towards the EU and the Commission as wholes. Crucially, the data reported demonstrate that the Commission indeed instils supranational role perceptions into secondees. This observation reflects processes of re-socialisation inside the Commission, the organisational composition of the Commission as well as organizational incompatibilities between the Commission and domestic ministries and agencies. The data does not report robust evidence of pre-socialisation outside the Commission. Hence, the Commission is indeed a ‘hothouse for supranationalism’.no_NO
dc.language.isoengno_NO
dc.publisherCentre for European Studies, Agder University Collegeno_NO
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCES Working Papers;2005:7
dc.subjectEuropean Commission,no_NO
dc.subjectorganisational incompatibilityno_NO
dc.subjectrole perceptionno_NO
dc.subjectseconded national expertno_NO
dc.subjectsocialisationno_NO
dc.subjectactor-level supranationalismno_NO
dc.titleIs the European Commission a hothouse for supranationalism? : theorising and exploring the world of Commission civil servantsno_NO
dc.typeWorking paperno_NO
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Social science: 200::Political science and organizational theory: 240no_NO
dc.source.pagenumber38 pno_NO


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