Tables and Figures
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
About the authors
Index