Germany, Europe, and the Politics of Constraint
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European Integration and the Federal Executive: A Long Story in Brief European Integration and the Federal Executive: A Long Story in Brief
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The Dual Nature of the Executive The Dual Nature of the Executive
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The Internal Life of the Federal Executive The Internal Life of the Federal Executive
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The European Effect Reconsidered The European Effect Reconsidered
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Fusion versus Bifurcation: Towards an Explanation Fusion versus Bifurcation: Towards an Explanation
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Is Bureaucratization Inevitable? Is Bureaucratization Inevitable?
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3 The Federal Executive: Bureaucratic Fusion versus Governmental Bifurcation
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Published:16 October 2003
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The federal ministerial executive is a dual institution, which combines the attributes of a government and an administration. This chapter investigates how European integration has affected this dual nature. It suggests that these two qualities of the executive have been affected in a differential way. On the administrative side, progressive integration has, indeed, been associated with growing ‘multi-level fusion’, through which the ministerial administration becomes part of a closely interconnected multi-level system. By contrast, the governmental dimension of the executive is characterized by growing bifurcation. Government takes place at two levels – the European and the domestic – but institutional linkage between the two levels is limited and some of the defining features of German government, notably the defining tenets of party government, coalition government, and parliamentary government, show few signs of Europeanization.
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