Access, capacity and influence

Kühn, Nadja S.; Trondal, Jarle

doi:10.1057/s41295-023-00366-0

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“…For instance, bureaucrats may be socialized into an administrative culture that prefers a rule-based logic of implementation that closely aligns with Weberian models of bureaucracy (Sager and Rosser 2021). Civil servants may in contrast also be motivated by strategic concerns: Since harmonized implementation requires frequent collaboration with EU-level bodies, a situation that naturally favours an administration that frequently looks to the EU (Kühn and Trondal 2023), harmonized implementation may be seen as the mode of implementation that most effectively lets civil servants strengthen their autonomy (Maggetti and Verhoest 2014). In contrast, politicians may prefer, as mentioned before, to implement policies in line with their own, or their parties', preferences.…”

Section: The Intra-elite Legitimacy Gapmentioning

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Comparing elite and citizen attitudes towards the differentiated implementation of EU law: Evidence from a large-N survey of citizens, politicians and bureaucrats

Moland

2024

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We know that elites and citizens trust international organizations to different degrees.However, little is known about how differently they think about one of the key building blocks of the international legal order: the implementation of internationalrules at the national level. Using data from a Norwegian survey from 2023 I find a distinct elite-citizen gap in the views of whether national policymakersshould prioritize international coherence or national preferences when implementing international rules at the national level. However, the direction of this gap varies depending on the elite in question: Whereas citizens are more positive towards legal harmonization than politicians, they are more critical than civil servants.These results call into question whether there is one “elite-citizen gap” or many, depending both on configurations of groups and whether these gaps differacross policies.

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Section: The Intra-elite Legitimacy Gapmentioning

confidence: 99%