Civil Servants and Politics

Part I. Civil Servants and Politics: Setting the Scene

1. Introduction
Christine Neuhold, Sophie Vanhoonacker

2. Politicisation: What Is It and Why Should We Care?
B. Guy Peters

3. Civil Servants and Politicians: Problems and Future Prospects
Luc Verhey

4. Civil Servants and Whistle-Blowing: Loyal Neutrality and/or Democratic Ideal?
Geoffrey Hunt

Part II. Politicisation of Civil Servants between Neutrality and Political Activism? Country Studies

5. Civil Servants and Politicians: A Very British Relationship
Diana Woodhouse

6. Managerialism and Politicisation in the Dutch Civil Service
Sandra Thiel

7. Civil Servants: How to Support the Political Level: The French Case
Frank Baron

8. Civil Service Reform in Slovakia and Hungary: The Road to Professionalisation?
Katarína Staroňová, Gyorgy Gajduschek

9. Civil Servants and Politics in Germany
Ulrich Battis

Part III. Supranational Bureaucracies and Consequences for Administrative Players

10. Commission Civil Servants and Politics: De-Politicised Bureaucrats in an Increasingly Political Organisation
Michael W. Bauer, Jörn Ege

11. The European Parliament’s Administration: Between Neutral and Politicised Competence
Iulian Romanyshyn, Christine Neuhold

12. Conclusion
Sophie Vanhoonacker, Christine Neuhold, Luc Verhey

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Political Science, European Union Politics, Public Policy, Comparative Politics, Public Administration, Democracy