Titlebook: Observing Government Elites; Up Close and Persona R. A. W. Rhodes (Director, Distinguished Professor Book 2007 Palgrave Macmillan, a divisi

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Spies at the Crossroads: Observing Change in the Dutch Intelligence Service Second World War, and found its main task and rationale in the Cold War struggles against communism. For decades it pursued that mission with dogged determination, engaging in counterespionage against its Eastern European and Chinese counterparts, as well as monitoring and neutralising the activiti

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Governing Karlstad: an Insider’s Story the smoothness of it all. All items of any financial importance were prepared by the Finance Department. The proposals made by the Finance Director in his reports were approved. Sometimes, the local council’s opposition leader would register his disagreement, and that was it. No debate took place,

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Dutch Eurocrats at Work: Getting Things Done in Europe-Kappen, 1996). Our contribution to this effort is to look at European governance through the eyes of people who routinely ‘do’ European governance as part of their jobs as national civil servants. This chapter reports part of a much larger project that involved intensive case studies of two issue a

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The EU’s Nomads: National Eurocrats in European Policy-Making a rigid, inflexible, boring person working for his bureau rather than its clients or society at large. EU bureaucrats are frequently associated with forming useless, interventionist policies, such as prescribing the size of a strawberry or the curve of a banana. Moreover, like its national counterp

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European Integration in Anthropological Perspective: Studying the ‘Culture’ of the EU Civil Servicee, administrative and judicial powers and competencies make it unique among international bureaucracies. Unlike national civil services the Commission has policy-initiating powers and is centrally involved in EU decision-making at all levels. The Commission often defines itself as the ‘heart of the

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So What? The Benefits and Pitfalls of Being Thereodd (see for example such standard texts as Burnham et al., 2004). It is the preserve of anthropology, organisation theory and sociology, not political science. As Fenno (1990: 128) comments, ‘not enough political scientists are presently engaged in observation’. We know that for colleagues in disci

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Book 2007This book focuses on the everyday life of ministers and senior public servants in different countries, describing the world through their eyes. It explores how their beliefs, practices and traditions create meaning in politics and public policy making. It provides unique data on life of politicians and practical advice on how to conduct fieldwork.