Europäisierung und Internationalisierung der nationalen Verwaltungen im Vergleich : Deutsch-italienische Analysen

The national administrative systems are faced with a growing pressure to adapt to an expading and wider differenting EU law. They react differently to phenomena. The book publishes contributions - resulting from a German-Italian cooperation - which apprach the topic from three perspectives. Firstly, the impacts on the Europeanisation or internationalization of national administrations are examined, combined with the question as to what extent the ascertainable convergences lead to a deeper transformation of the national administrative systems. Secondly it is about modernization impulses, which are triggered by competition between national administrations promoted by the realization of the single European market. Finally, the question is how an effective European legal and implementation community can be achieved despite different legal and administrative traditions of the EU Member States

EU agencies and the politicized administration

In their efforts to categorize the growing body of agencies operating at EU level, influential commentators on the state of the Union have of late noted a veritable ‘agency fever’ (Busuioc et al. 2012; Egeberg and Trondal 2017), or an exponential rise in the creation of ‘non-majoritarian’ (Majone 1996, 1997) governance structures within the European Union. This development raises a series of queries, which will be tackled in this contribution, not the least of which is the issue of whether, in its increasingly politicized use of the agency vehicle, the European Union is placing an impossible stress on agency actors. Book synopsis: Ordoliberalism is a theoretical and cultural tradition of significant societal and political impact in post-war Germany. For a long time the theory was only known outside Germany by a handful of experts, but ordoliberalism has now moved centre stage after the advent of the financial crisis, and has become widely perceived as the ideational source of Germany's crisis politics. In this collection, the contributors engage in a multi-faceted exploration of the conceptual history of ordoliberalism, the premises of its founding fathers in law and economics, its religious underpinnings, the debates over its theoretical assumptions and political commitments, and its formative vision of societal ordering based upon a synthesis of economic theories and legal concepts. The renewal of that vision through the ordoliberal conceptualisation of the European integration project, the challenges of the current European crisis, and the divergent perceptions of ordoliberalism within Germany and by its northern and southern EU neighbours, are a common concern of all these endeavours. They unfold interdisciplinary affinities and misunderstandings, cultural predispositions and prejudices, and political preferences and cleavages. By examining European traditions through the lens of ordoliberalism, the book illustrates the diversity of European economic cultures, and the difficulty of transnational political exchanges, in a time of European crisis