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Drawing on research from the administrative sciences and using organizational, institutional and decision-making theories, this volume examines the emerging bureaucratic framework of the EU and highlights that analyzing the patterns and dynamics of the EU´s administrative capacities is essential to understand how it shapes European public policy.

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1. Introduction: The Administrative System of the European Union; Michael W. Bauer and Jarle Trondal PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES 2. European Public Administration as Multilevel System Administration: A conceptual Framework; Arthur Benz 3. The Two Logics of Multilevel Administration in the EU; Edgar Grande and Martina McCowan 4. EU Administration: Center Formation and Multilevelness; Morton Egeberg 5. A Conceptual Account of the European Administrative Space; Jarle Trondal and B. Guy Peters 6. Administrative Styles of EU Institutions; Christoph Knill and Stephan Grohs 7. Administrative Reforms in the European Commission and the Neo-Weberian Model; Edoardo Ongaro PART II; EU´S EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATION 8. The European Commision: Politics and Administration; Michelle Cini 9. Politicization of the European Commission: When, How and with What Impact?; Miriam Hartlapp 10. The Permanent Commission Bureaucrat; Sara Connolly and Hussein Kassim 11. The Temporary Commission Bureaucrat; Zuzana Murdoch and Jarle Trondal 12. The European External Action Service (EEAS): The New Kid of the Block; Tannelie Blom and Sophie Vanhoonacker PART III: EU´S PARLIAMENT ADMINISTRATION 13. The European Administration: Organizational Structure and Behavioral Implications; Morten Egeberg, �se Gornitzka, Jarle Trondal and Mathias Johannessen 14. Officials ´Pre-Cooking´ EU Affairs? The Role of EP Officials in the Ordinary Legislative Procedure (OLP); Mathias Dobbels and Christine Neuhold PART IV: EU´S ´INTERGOVERNMENTAL´ ADMINISTRATION 15. The EU Council(s) System and Administrative Fusion; Wolfgang Wessels, Peter Valant and Tobias Kunstein 16. the Institutional Context of the European Union´s Council System and the International Design of Discretion for Preparatory Agents; Jeffery Lewis PART V: EU´S COURT ADMINISTRATIVE 17. The Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Administrative Space; Herwig C H. Hofman 18. The European Court of Auditors and Its Relationship With National Independent Audit Institutions: The Evolving Audit Function in the EU Multi-Level System; Hartmut Aden PART VI: EU´S SUBORDINATED ADMINISTRATION 19. EU´s Subordinated Agency Administration and the Rise of Executive Power at the European Level; Morten Egeberg, Maria Martens and Jarle Trondal 20. Exploring EU Commission-Agency Relationship: Partnership or Parenthood? Nina Merethe Vestlund PART VII: VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL ADMINISTRATIVE INTERACTION 21. Horizontal Capacity Pooling: Direct, Decentralized, Joint Policy Execution; Eva G. Heidbreder 22. EU Administration and Interaction with International Organizations; Bob Reinalda 23. The Expert-Executive Nexus in the European Administrative System: Expert Groups and the European Commission; �se Gornitzka and Ulf Sverdrup 24. Comitology: Over 50 Years of Institutional Reforms and Emerging Practices; Gijs Jan Brandsma 25. Subnational Administrations in the EU Multilevel System: Perspectives from the Bureaucratic Elite; Michael W. Bauer and Stefan Becker 26. The Europeanization of Civil Services and Human Resources (HR) Policies; Christoph Demmke PART VIII: CONCLUSIONS AND CHALLENGES 27 . Holding Executive Power to Account: The EU Administration´s Accountability Challenge(s); Anchrit Wille 28. The European Administrative System Reassessed; Jarle Trondal

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