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European Civil Service in (Times of) Crisis: A Political Sociology of the Changing Power of Eurocrats
Didier Georgakakis
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This book, part of the new wave of political sociology in EU studies, examines the dialectics of construction/deconstruction of the European civil service through a succession of empirically grounded case studies. Breaking with the usual representations of `Eurocrats', it sheds light on a hidden aspect of the current European crisis: a crisis of social reproduction which affects the European civil service in a heavy context of management reforms, enlargements, institutional changes and the euro crisis. This in turn has a number of consequences in terms of internal tensions, power, and more broadly, the capacity of EU institutions to create convergence ... Read more
This book, part of the new wave of political sociology in EU studies, examines the dialectics of construction/deconstruction of the European civil service through a succession of empirically grounded case studies. Breaking with the usual representations of `Eurocrats', it sheds light on a hidden aspect of the current European crisis: a crisis of social reproduction which affects the European civil service in a heavy context of management reforms, enlargements, institutional changes and the euro crisis. This in turn has a number of consequences in terms of internal tensions, power, and more broadly, the capacity of EU institutions to create convergence ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
Condition
New
Number of Pages
329
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319517919
SKU
V9783319517919
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About Didier Georgakakis
Didier Georgakakis is Professor of Political Science at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Belgium. He is co-editor of The Field of Eurocracy (Palgrave, 2013).
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