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.

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; ZuzanaMurdoch 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, Åse 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 NationalIndependent 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; Åse 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