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100			_aTrondal, Jarle
245			_aOn bureaucratic centre formation in government institutions: Lessons from the European Commission
260			_c2012
300			_ap.425-446.
362			_aSep
520			_aIdentifying and explaining bureaucratic centre formation within government institutions ﾖ such as the European Commission (Commission) ﾖ is essential for understanding political order and the potential and limitations for public sector governance. Benefiting from a new body of interview data this article adds two key observations: First, bureaucratic centre formation in the Commission does not profoundly penetrate the Commission as a whole. Comparing officials from the Secretariat General and DG Trade, this study suggests that bureaucratic centre formation is primarily happening within the Secretariat General and only marginally penetrating DG Trade. Two behavioural logics tend to coexist within the Commission administration, albeit embedded and layered within different organizational sub-units. Variation in bureaucratic centre formation is associated with two key variables: (i) the accumulation of relevant organizational capacities at the bureaucratic centre, and (ii) the vertical and horizontal specialization of the Commission administration. Third, these findings hold when ﾑcontrolling forﾒ recent managerial reforms inside the Commission. The article illustrates that despite recent Commission reforms, some core behavioural logics among Commission officials are not profoundly transformed. - Rep
650			_aEuropean Union
773			_aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
908			_aN
909			_a97654
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