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Conclusions: Understanding Heterogeneous Institutional Change in the Commission,amic as well as the consequences for the Commission as a political institution. It gives an in-depth multi-dimensional answer to the central question: what explains institutional change in the Commission since 2000?

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,1950–1984: Constructing the Administrative Commission,ions suggested over 45 years, despite a lack of implementation. It therefore nuances two common views on the European administration: that the Commission did not experience any worthwhile reform process before the Santer presidency; and that the Kinnock reform measures represent a significant depart

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,1985–1998: The Foundations for the Kinnock Reforms,Delors was President of the Commission witnessed the most fruitful relaunch of European integration and policy conception. The institution’s problems were more associated by officials and politicians with a lack of vision and leadership than with poor organisational structures and management (Herman

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Reforming Public Administrations: New Public Management and the White Paper,d towards a managerial approach with more or less enthusiasm, the European Commission only took timid steps with SEM 2000 and MAP 2000. French civil servants admitted that the Commission ‘feels like the French administration of many years ago’ (McDonald, 1998, p. 33). Yet as explained in previous ch

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From Policy to Practice: Operationalising NPM,o be integrated into the picture. As can be expected from the implementation of such a broad and ambitious administrative reform programme, outcomes from the White Paper did not always match expectations and led to some unanticipated consequences which illustrate the difficulty of operationalising N

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Conclusions: Understanding Heterogeneous Institutional Change in the Commission,stitutional change or not, this research built on the works of Kassim (2004a, 2004b, 2008), Levy (2002, 2003, 2004), Peterson (2004) and Cini (2004), which specifically discuss the Kinnock reforms and unanimously demonstrate the occurrence of change. Even though these authors might not agree on the