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100			_aBauer, Michael W.
245			_aPoliticization within the European Commission bureaucracy
260			_c2012
300			_ap.403-424.
362			_aSep
520			_aAgainst a background of institutional change and organizational reform, we analyze the politicization of the European Commissionﾒs bureaucracy. Politicization can generally be defined as the substitution of bureaucratic neutrality by introducing political considerations into the human resource management and behaviour of civil servants. The concepts of direct and professional politicization serve as vantage points for our analysis. The empirical data are taken from documentary analysis and recent online and semi-structured surveys of Commission officials. We show that Commission bureaucrats, although they are highly sensitive to the political side of their job, are less politicized since the Kinnock reforms than before. While the College of the Commission seems to have indeed become more politically responsive to its supranational peers and national governments, the Commissionﾒs bureaucracy can be characterized as weakly politicized or, according to current debates, as quite instrumental in a Neo-Weberian sense. - Reprodu
650			_aBureaucracy
650			_aAdministrative reform
650			_aEuropean Union
700			_aEge, Jorn
773			_aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
908			_aN
909			_a97653
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