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Acknowledgements

Chapter One:

Studying Eurocrats at Work

1.1 Emerging Eurocracy: National civil servants and European integration

1.2 From diplomats to international experts

1.3 Tensions and dilemmas in diplomatic practice

1.4 Research questions

1.5 Methods

1.6 Book plan

Chapter Two:

Toward a Europeanised Civil Service?

A Survey Study

2.1 Surveying the Dutch civil service

2.2 Finding Dutch 'Eurocrats'

2.3 The organisational context of Dutch Eurocracy

2.4 The virtuous spiral of organisational Europeanisation

Chapter Three:

Eurocratic Work as Strategic Behaviour: Moving Before the Commission Does in Veterinary Policy

3.1 Representing the 'national interest' in Brussels

3.2 Uploading in the pre-proposal phase

3.3 Research design

3.4 Frontloading, signalling and coalition formation in veterinary policy

3.5 Eurocratic work as strategic behaviour: Conclusions

Chapter Four:

Getting Things Done in European Police Co-operation

4.1 Eurocratic work in the Third Pillar: A different world?

4.2 The case of data availability: 'Messy' policy-making in Europe

4.3 Species of Eurocrats

4.4 Understanding national Eurocrats: Conclusions

Chapter Five:

Bridge Builders or Bridgeheads in Brussels?

The World of Seconded National Experts

5.1 Living and breathing the Brussels bureaucracy

5.2 Getting inside the insiders: Methodology and data

5.3 Demand and supply: The Dutch and the expert secondment system

5.4 Profiling the Dutch expert contingent

5.5 Knowing how and knowing who: Networking

5.6 Life after secondment: SNEs and their careers

5.7 An underutilised asset: Conclusions

Chapter Six:

Understanidng Eurocratic Work:

Conclusions and Reflections

6.1 Dutch Eurocracy revisited

6.2 Eurocrats: How many, where?

6.3 Eurocratic work: Individual professionalism

6.4 Eurocratic work: Organisational preconditions

6.5 Grasping the real world of Eurocracy: The road ahead

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

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