Ebook: European civil service in (times of) crisis : a political sociology of the changing power of Eurocrats
Author: Georgakakis Didier
- Tags: Civil service -- European Union countries, Europe -- Social conditions -- 21st century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Executive Branch, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, Civil service, Social conditions, Europe, Europe -- European Union countries
- Series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- City: Array, Europe--European Union countries
- Language: English
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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 aRead more...
Abstract: "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 between diverging national and economic interests, and to embody a European future.European Civil Service in (Times of) Crisis will be of interest to students and scholars across a wide range of disciplines, including politics, sociology and public administration, to practitioners working in and with the EU institutions, as well as those wishing to know more about the EU. "