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An Organisational Approach To European Integration – Outline of a Complementary Perspective.  

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AN ORGANISATIONAL APPROACH TO EUROPEAN INTEGRATION - OUTLINE OF A COMPLEMENTARY PERSPECTIVE (FORTHCOMING 1) Morten Egeberg Abstract Organisational approach to European integration: focuses on individual actors organisational context › to account: behaviour, interests and identities Intergovernmentalists: usually preclude any profound impact of EU institutions and organisations Institutionalists: claim that EU institutions are able to shape and reshape individual actors' preference and sense of belonging (seen from an organisational perspective: institutionalists often fail to specify (and theorise) the organisational components that institutions may contain. This article: tries to illustrate what an organisational approach has to offer in fields like committee governance and Commission decision making. The need for a complementary perspective: O The intergovernmental argument (Moravscik) has been applied more generally on European integration for a long time. From this perspective: policy-making at the European level is, in general, dominated by national governments whose interests and preferences are shaped and reshaped at the national level. Institutions like the...

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