The book highlights the development of a really integrated European executive branch of government across national borders and levels of governance, quite different from the standard portrayal of ‘indirect administration’ and national ‘administrative sovereignty’ within the EU.

1. Tradition and Innovation: Europe’s Accumulated Executive Order Deirdre Curtin and Morten Egeberg 2. Mapping the European Administrative Space Herwig C.H. Hofmann 3. Bureaucratic Change in the European Administrative Space: The Case of the European Commission Tim Balint, Michael W. Bauer and Christoph Knill 4. Beyond the Myth of Nationality: Analysing Networks within the European Commission Semin Suvarierol 5. Who Consults? The Configuration of Expert Groups in the European Union Åse Gornitzka and Ulf Sverdrup 6. At a Critical Juncture? Change and Continuity in the Institutional Development of the Council Secretariat Thomas Christiansen and Sophie Vanhoonacker 7. European Administration: Centralisation and Fragmentation as a Means of Polity-Building? Johannes Pollak and Sonja Puntscher Riekmann 8. Delegation of Powers in the European Union: The Need for a Multi-principals Model Renaud Dehousse 9. Reshaping European Regulatory Space: An Evolutionary Analysis Mark Thatcher and David Coen 10. Halfway House: The 2006 Comitology Reforms and the European Parliament – A View from the Ground Floor Kieran St Clair Bradley