“…Their prevalence has triggered a new research field within public administration studies, which has traced the rise of these institutions not only on the EU level, but also within nation states (see e.g. Busuioc, 2013;Christensen & Holst 2017;Curtin 2007Curtin , 2017Egeberg, Schaefer & Trondal, 2003;Egeberg & Trondal, 2011;Ennser-Jedenastik, 2015;Gornitzka & Krick, 2018;Kelemen, 2002;Lord, 2011). Recently, research on these institutions has directed more attention to the social and political ties of expert bodies (Busuioc, 2013;Ennser-Jedenastik, 2016;Gornitzka & Krick, 2018;Lodge, 2008;Pérez-Durán, 2017), i.e.…”