Politics and Bureaucracy in the European Community: A Portrait of the Commission of the E.E.C.

Politics and Bureaucracy in the European Community (1970) examines the European project’s key institution, the Commission, an assessment that also examines the basic principles on which the European Union is based. It reveals the Commission to be one of the most curious and interesting political institutions of our time – not only from the point of view of international organization, but also as a special kind of governmental institution: a ‘responsible bureaucracy’ or ‘independent officialdom’.