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European Policy Analysis - Volume 2, Number 1 - Spring 2016

Why You Should Read My Book
Sager, Fritz, and Patrick Overeem, eds. The European Public Servant:
A Shared Administrative Identity? Colchester: ECPR Press.2015. ISBN:
9781907301742.
Patrick Overeem, Universiteit Leiden, Campus Den Haag

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ur book departs from the basic idea, promoted by the European Union, that
European public policy needs to be embedded in a European administrative
space. So far, however, no one seems to know exactly whether there is a shared
European administrative identity and what it looks like. The various contributions in
this volume set out to explore indications of family traits of the European public servant.
And indeed, while there is no clear-cut overall identity, there are many characteristics
shared across various European countries. This book helps you understand, from
both historical and comparative perspectives, the heterogeneous phenomenon of the
European public servant.
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Reimut Zohlnhöfer and Friedbert W. Rüb, eds. Decision Making under
Ambiguity and Time Constraints. Assessing the Multiple-Streams Framework.Colchester: ECPR Press. (ISBN 9781785521256)
Friedbert Rüb, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

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ur book assesses the analytical clout of Kingdon’s Multiple-Streams
Framework, which is widely used and well established in policy studies. Highranking experts and talented junior researchers apply the Framework in their
theoretically and empirically profound contributions.

Different national contexts, such as Germany, Greece, Spain, Sweden, the
United Kingdom, and United States, are covered and a wide variety of policy areas such
as abortion, climate change, foreign policy, healthcare, internal security, nonsmoking
regulations, social policy, and tax policy are investigated.

This coherently edited book offers an excellent overview of key comparative
issues and will fascinate you, especially if you work with the now-classic MultipleStreams Framework.

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