Politics and the European Commission : Actors, Interdependence, Legitimacy

The European Commission is an organization which has come to fascinate or repulse a range of national politicians, journalists and social scientists. This book investigates this organization's relationship to politics.

Olivier Baisnee is a Lecturer in Political Science at the Centre de Recherches sur l'Action Politique en Europe (CRAPE), Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Rennes Veronique Dimier is Professor in Political Science at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles Helen Drake is Senior Lecturer in French and European Studies at Loughborough University Francois Foret is Research Fellow at the Centre for Media Studies, University of Stirling Didier Georgakakis is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the Groupe de sociologie politique europeenne (GSPE), Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Strasbourg Sebastien Guigner is a doctoral student in Political Science at the Centre de Recherches sur l'Action Politique en Europe (CRAPE), Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Rennes Jean Joana is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the Centre d'Etudes sur la Politique en Europe Latine (CEPEL), University of Montpellier Hussein Kassim is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the Birkbeck School of Politics and Sociology, University of London Jeannette Mak is Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam and at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research Cecile Robert is a Research Fellow in Political Science at the Centre d'etudes et de Recherches sur l'Administration Publique (CERAPS), University of Lille Andy Smith is Senior Research Fellow in Political Science at the CERVL (Pouvoir-Action-Publique-Territoire), Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux Jarle Trondal is qualifying professor in Public Administration and European integration at the Centre for European Studies, Agder University College, Norway