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There is little doubt that the process of European integration has resulted in a complex system of multilevel governance. Much has been said about the promises and pitfalls of an ever-increasing delegation of powers to the European Union (EU). However, scholars have only recently started to grasp the transformative effects of the integration process on national administrations, which is particularly visible with regard to semi-autonomous national agencies. The multilevel governance architecture of the EU increasingly relies on the administrative capacities of national agencies - which profoundly affects the allocation of attention and resources within national agencies, the institutional architecture of national administrative systems through both direct and indirect pressure to create agencies, and most importantly, the autonomy of national agencies within their domestic politico-administrations. Taken together, we argue that involvement by national agencies in European administrative networks has a transformative effect on national politico-administrative systems.
Introduction Among the many promises of reforms of the ‘regulatory state’ type, the clarification of account - ability relations features prominently. While not always using the language of accountability, a major argument against the state as direct provider of a range of public services was that accountability relations were unclear: state providers of services such as telecommunications and transport were hybrids between commercial enterprises and public service providers that were largely self-regulatory in terms of service provision and technical safety (Lodge and Wegrich 2012). The governance of such enterprises allowed political logics to trump economic rationales, and it was unclear in how far the management of these companies should follow either a political or a managerial logic, as they had to provide ‘essential public services’ in an economically efficient way.
Recent scholarship on advisory systems has focussed on the externalization of advisory capacities and sectoral dynamics of change, whereas changes of internal policy advisory systems have not yet been approached systematically. This article proposes an analytical concept for exploring change dynamics in internal policy advisory systems by means of three logics for assessing policy advice (political salience, credibility and representativeness). The approach is illustrated by analysing changes within the internal policy advisory system of the German federal government (1990–2015). The analysis relies on three original datasets on ministerial departments, research agencies and governmental advisory bodies. We find that the internal advisory system of the German federal government is characterized by a differentiated hybridization of advisory logics, which has changed the nature of policy advice.