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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Reviews
'Didier Georgakakis and Jay Rowell have put together a thought-provoking volume on 'the field of Eurocracy'. Contributors provide a wealth of information on the EU's actors while introducing a new sociological, actor-centred perspective which provides a welcome supplement (or even antidote) to more conventional studies of the European institutions.'
- Michelle Cini, Professor of European Politics, University of Bristol, UK and Co-editor, Journal of Common Market Studies
'The institutions of the European Union, despite valiant efforts to increase their transparency, remain puzzling to specialists and citizens alike, encouraging reductionisms such as that of a tentacular and all-powerful 'Brussels bureaucracy.' There are bureaucrats in Brussels, they are divided, functionally dispersed and, while very competent, much less powerful than such myths make them out to be. This excellent volume helps greatly to map 'Eurocracy' and demolish these myths. At a moment when the project for building a new Europe is under siege, such contributions are essential.'
- George Ross, ad personam Chaire Jean Monnet, Université de Montréal, Canada; Emeritus, Brandeis University, USA and Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, USA
'Forty-five years after A. Spinelli's 'The Eurocrats', this is the first book to systematically deploy the concepts, analytical tools and methodology of contemporary sociology to thestudy of the European Union institutions. An entirely original perspectives on the institutions and the people who work for them thus emerges. Specialists of European affaires, scholars and students in politics, administration and sociology as well as citizens will develop a new understanding of who rules the EU institutions and why, sociologically speaking, the European project appears to be in crisis.'
Juan DÃez Medrano, Professor of Sociology, Universidad de Barcelona, Spain and Chair of the Council for European Studies
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Field of Eurocracy
Book Subtitle: Mapping EU Actors and Professionals
Editors: Didier Georgakakis, Jay Rowell
Series Title: European Administrative Governance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137294708
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-29469-2Published: 26 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-45156-2Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-29470-8Published: 12 December 2013
Series ISSN: 2524-7263
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7271
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 288
Topics: European Union Politics, Political Sociology, Political Science, Public Policy, Public Administration, Globalization
Industry Sectors: Biotechnology