Overview
- Investigates the personnel dimension of the EU by looking at turnover in various institutions
- Claims that personnel turnover in EU institutions affects throughput and output legitimacy, but not input legitimacy
- Highlights that that gender imbalances imperil the EU’s effectiveness, efficiency, and ability to meet citizens’ needs
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics (PSEUP)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Turnover and Input Legitimacy
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Turnover and Output Legitimacy
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Conclusion
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About this book
This book examines the effects of personnel turnover in European Union institutions. Individuals enter and exit EU institutions with remarkable frequency, and questions involving institutional personnel lie at the heart of populist and feminist critiques of the EU. Are these critiques accurate? How do personnel dynamics affect the EU’s legitimacy? Will changing patterns of turnover help to redeem the EU? Personnel Turnover addresses these issues by considering turnover’s effects on three aspects of legitimacy (input, throughput, and output). Authors use a common framework to explore various questions: Does turnover affect the ways that EU citizens see the EU or the likelihood that citizens will participate in EU elections? Does turnover affect the efficiency of the EU decision-making or the EU’s ability to promote its interests abroad? In tackling these contemporary subjects, the authors throw light on a classical question—what difference does it make when political leaders are replaced?
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
John A. Scherpereel is Professor of Political Science at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, USA. The author of Governing the Czech Republic and Slovakia: Between State Socialism and the European Union, his research focuses on executive politics, legislative politics, and political representation.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Personnel Turnover and the Legitimacy of the EU
Editors: John A. Scherpereel
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60052-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60051-8Published: 30 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60054-9Published: 30 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60052-5Published: 28 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-5873
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5881
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 232
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Politics, Politics and Gender, Political Leadership, Governance and Government