Time and Power in the European Commission
分析了时间规则和惯例如何推动欧盟委员会的政治化和中央集权，发现政治层对行政层的时间控制增强，中央协调部门权力上升，传统官僚的时间优势减弱。
Major recent studies of the European Commission have emphasised the growing politicisation and centralisation as important trends transforming its organisation. The present article analyses the role that time rules and temporal practices that structure the operation of the Commission have played in these trends. It finds a clear temporal subtext to politicisation and centralisation. This becomes evident when one examines two key time-sensitive relationships: between the political level – the College of Commissioners – and the administrative level; and between central coordination units – notably the Secretariat-General – and line units. Political time-setting, monitoring and enforcement have assumed greater prominence, reducing the temporal discretion of the administration; central ‘keepers of the clock’ have acquired greater power; and traditional bureaucratic advantages in time budgets and time horizons have diminished.