Palgrave Macmillan and the Maastricht Centre for European Governance (www.mceg-maastricht.eu) are launching a new book series and are inviting proposals for authored or edited books in the area of ‘European Administrative Governance’. The new series will be edited by Thomas Christiansen and Sophie Vanhoonacker, both at Maastricht University, and will be open both to theoretically-oriented as well as more empirically-informed studies.
Proposals are welcomed from a range of disciplines addressing the study of European public administration. In particular, we seek contributions to the series that engage with the role and nature of the evolving bureaucratic processes of the European Union, including the study of the EU’s civil service, of organization aspects of individual institutions such as the European Commission, the Council of Ministers, the External Action Service, the European Parliament, the European Court and the European Central Bank and of inter-institutional relations among these and other actors. The series also welcomes contributions on the growing role of EU agencies, networks of technical experts and national officials, and of the administrative dimension of multilevel governance including international organizations. Of particular interest in this respect will be the emergence of a European diplomatic service and the management of the EU’s expanding commercial, foreign, development, security and defence policies.
Beyond this strong focus of EU administrative governance, the series will also include texts on the development and practice of administrative governance within European states. This may include contributions to the administrative history of Europe, which is not just about rules and regulations governing bureaucracies, or about formal criteria for measuring the growth of bureaucracies, but rather about the concrete workings of public administration, both in its executive functions as in its involvement in policy-making. Furthermore the series will include studies on the interaction between the national and European level, with particular attention for the impact of the EU on domestic administrative systems.
Please submit proposals, using the standard form available from Palgrave Macmillan at: http://www.palgrave.com/authors/publishing.asp by email to the series editors
t.christiansen@maastrichtuniversity.nl
s.vanhoonacker@maastrichtuniversity.nl
as well as to Amber Stone-Galilee, Senior Commissioning Editor at Palgrave Macmillan: A.StoneGalilee@palgrave.com
Informal enquiries to questions prospective authors may have from those considering submitting a proposal will receive responses.
