Can we speak of a toolkit to analyse the Europeanization of public administrations?
We followed a few principles of the so-called new Europeanisation research agenda. First, one should decouple formal rules from their practical application by focusing on actual changes to public administration. Second, it s useful to mix quantitative and qualitative methods in this analysis. Third, one should adopt a longitudinal approach to the study of public administration changes in order to follow the ‘bottom-up-down’ approach to Europeanisation (Graziano and Vink, 2013: 47). Fourth, it is important to compare PA across CEE countries in order to better disentangle the EU’s influence from CEE-specific factors. See our paper on the impact of the EU on agencification and depoliticisation in Lithuania on ResearchGate.
Thank you very much for your suggestions. Your paper looks very interesting and useful to my research.
I ordinarily think of public administration as beyond my ken. But I recently made use of some of the EU Commission's progress reports on Turkey. The subject of administration comes up quite a bit. I realize that I am not quite answering your question, which focuses on methods of assessment, But it occurred to me that such reports on Turkey and/or other candidate members might be useful to you. See,for example, the 2014 report on Turkey: http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/pdf/key_documents/2014/20141008-turkey-progress-report_en.pdf
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