TY - JOUR
T1 - The administrative reform trajectory of the European Commission in comparative perspective: Historical new institutionalism in compound systems
AU - Ongaro, Edoardo
PY - 2013/10
Y1 - 2013/10
N2 - The European Commission has undergone successive waves of public management reforms since the second half of the 1990s that have led to substantive administrative change. This contribution aims at explaining how the “unique” politico-administrative context of the European Union affected the trajectory of reform of the Commission, compared with trajectories of reform of the public sector at the national level. On the basis of such analysis, the Pollitt and Bouckaert model of contextual influences on the dynamics of public management reform is revisited, and considerations on the use of historical institutionalism in the study of administrative reforms proposed.
AB - The European Commission has undergone successive waves of public management reforms since the second half of the 1990s that have led to substantive administrative change. This contribution aims at explaining how the “unique” politico-administrative context of the European Union affected the trajectory of reform of the Commission, compared with trajectories of reform of the public sector at the national level. On the basis of such analysis, the Pollitt and Bouckaert model of contextual influences on the dynamics of public management reform is revisited, and considerations on the use of historical institutionalism in the study of administrative reforms proposed.
KW - administrative organisation
KW - administrative theory
KW - IGOs
U2 - 10.1177/0952076713481486
DO - 10.1177/0952076713481486
M3 - Article
VL - 28
SP - 346
EP - 363
JO - Public Policy and Administration
JF - Public Policy and Administration
SN - 0952-0767
IS - 4
ER -