This book brings together diverse voices spanning multiple generations, nationalities, institutional affiliations, and geographical contexts to examine contemporary developments in the study of personnel and professionals engaged in the European integration process. Edited by two distinguished authorities in the discipline, this comprehensive volume represents a significant scholarly contribution to the emerging field of European integration personnel studies.
The collection presents a methodologically diverse array of empirical investigations, each grounded in original datasets and employing varied analytical frameworks. The chapters illustrate in a unique manner the state of the art in this rich subfield of European studies. This book is distinctive in taking stock of and reviewing new developments in the flourishing field of EU personnel and professional studies. Comprising a broad range of case studies, data, and methodologies, it constitutes an essential resource for specialists in European issues as well as for students seeking to engage at various levels with the European Union or within its institutions and processes.
This book will serve as an essential resource for advanced undergraduate students, researchers, and established scholars specializing in European Union studies, comparative politics, and public administration. Academics and practitioners engaged in research on European governance, institutional analysis, and integration theory will find the volume particularly valuable. The work also addresses the needs of policy professionals and civil servants working within or alongside EU institutions who seek deeper understanding of the human dimensions of European integration.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of European Politics and Society.
This book brings together diverse voices spanning multiple generations, nationalities, institutional affiliations, and geographical contexts to examine contemporary developments in the study of personnel and professionals engaged in the European integration process.
Introduction: Studying people building Europe Bibliographical Essay:
Seeing into the trees; why EU personnel and professionals studies are
flourishing and why they matter
1. Beyond the revolving door: professional
paths of accredited parliamentary assistants after the European parliament
2.
The EU leadership constellation: neither monist nor pluralist, but
triarchical. An analysis of the profiles of the 300 dominant administrative
and political positions in the EU institutions in 2021
3. Civil society
coalitions in the EU media regulation: when field theory meets network
analysis
4. Between science, economics and politics: the changing face of
political-economic European Expert Groups (19662018)
5. Reforming EU
financial markets: mission impossible? The field of Eurocracy and private
interests in MiFID revision
6. Emergency politics from the inside: EU staff
and the building of a task force during the Greek crisis
7. Elite fidelity in
Europes crisis management regime
8. Four leaders, four decades: leadership
and European parliaments secretaries-general
9. Mothers, parliamentarians,
leaders: career factors influencing women's representation in the European
Parliament a case study of German parliamentarians
10. One EU civil service
or many? The European Commission and the council secretariat
11. The
policymakers of European economic and monetary cooperation: staff and network
of the European Commissions directorate-general for economic and financial
affairs, 19571992
12. Developing the concept of consequential senior
European Union civil servants as sub-political policy entrepreneurs
Conclusions: into the forest
Didier Georgakakis is a French Political Scientist specialized in the Political Sociology of the European Union. A Professor of Political Science and Jean Monnet Chair at Sorbonne School of Politics (Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne), he is also a member of the European Centre for Sociology and Political Science (CNRS/P1/EHESS), a Senior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France, and has been a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges) since 2007 and is Academic Coordinator of its Inter-Departmental European Advanced Studies (IDEAs) Programme.
Martin Westlake is a British Political Scientist and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges) and at the European Institute of the London School of Economics (United Kingdom). He has spent over four decades studying European integration and working in European Union government and politics. He has published widely on the European institutions and on European and British politics. He is also the author of a major political biography (Kinnock, The Biography).
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