01425pab a2200169 454500008004000000100002000040245010000060260000900160300001300169362000800182520087400190650001901064773004101083909001001124999001701134952010401151180718b1999   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aHooghe, Liesbet  aImages of Europe: orientations to European integration among senior officials of the commission  c1999  ap.345-67  aApr  aThe European Union is a polity in the making, where political actors contend about basic questions of governance. While students have begun to map contention between public parties and private interests, little attention has been paid to how office-holders in the Commission conceive of European integration. Using interview data collected from 140 senior officials of the Commission. I identify contention along four dimensions; whether the EU should have supranational or intergovernmental institutions; whether it should use democratic or technocratic decision making; whether it should promote regulated capitalism or market liberalism; and whether the elite should defend the European public good or be responsive to various interests. My findings challenge EU theories that conceive of the Commission as a unitary actor with a pro-integration agenda. - Reproduced  aEuropean union  aBritish Journal of Political Science  a40795  c40795d40795  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 29, Issue no: 2pAR41170r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR