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This volume started by addressing a set of research questions that are worth revisiting:
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To what extent, how, and under what conditions may the emergent European administrative system challenge and complement crucial functions of preexisting administrative systems?
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Are the characteristics of this emergent administrative system fairly stable and enduring or easily subject to change and reform?
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Does the European administrative system represent a radical institutional transformation from the inherent Westphalian order of politico-administrative power, or is it merely an adjustment of well-known principles and practices of administrative organization and patterns of public policy making?
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To what extent and how does the European administrative system impact on preexisting processes of administrative control, accountability, coordination, implementation, and policy learning?
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More broadly, how does the European administrative system change public administration as an instrument of national democratic authority and its role in parliamentary oversight?
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Finally, do the different parts of administrative capacity building that we have observed at EU level add up to a new polity formation? In short, does the sum of administrative capacities — and their interrelationships — aggregate to some kind of common administrative system? If so, this volume aims to get a more precise picture of what such a system looks like.
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Trondal, J. (2015). The European Administrative System Reassessed. In: Bauer, M.W., Trondal, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of the European Administrative System. European Administrative Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137339898_28
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