The Presidency of the European Commission under Jacques Delors
ISBN: 9780333984161
Platform/Publisher: SpringerLink / Palgrave Macmillan UK
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: unlimited; Download: unlimited
Subjects: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection;

This work is the first systematic study of the presidency of the European Commission. Drawing upon cases of attempted leadership by Jacques Delors, the Commission President from 1985-95, it examines the leadership capacity of the office-holder. This points to the inherently shared and contingent nature of Commission President's leadership in a Union where the leadership sources are widely dispersed. While this is essentially an empirical study, Endo addresses some of the theoretical implications of its findings and resulting issues.

KEN ENDO is Lecturer in International Relations in the Faculty of Law, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. He has been a JSPS (Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science) Research Fellow (1992-96) and an Advisory Expert to the 'Cellule de Prospective', European Commission (1993). He completed his D.Phil at St Antony's College, University of Oxford, in 1996.

hidden image for function call