The Field of Eurocracy Mapping EU Actors and Professionals [Paperback]

The word Eurocracy has resonance throughout out Europe but in reality we know little about the people who work in and around the EU or how they fit into its large bureaucratic framework. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book addresses this problem by exploring the MEPs, diplomats, civil servants and commissioners that work in and around the EU.Introduction: Studying Eurocracy as a Bureaucratic Field; Didier Georgakakis, Jay Rowell 1. MEPs: Towards a Specialization of European Political Work?; Willy Beauvallet and Sebastien Michon 2. Tensions Within Eurocracy: A Socio-Morphological Perspective; Didier Georgakakis 3. The Permanent Representatives to the EU: Going Native in the European Field?; Filippa Chatzistavrou 4. ECB Leaders: a New European Monetary Elite?; Frederic Lebaron 5. The World of European Information: The Institutional and Relational Genesis of the EU Public Sphere; Philippe Aldrin 6. Expert Groups in the Field of Eurocracy; Cecile Robert 7. Interest Groups and Lobbyists in the European Political Space: The Permanent Eurocrats; Guillaume Courty, Helene Michel 8. The Personnel of the European Trade Union Confederation: Specifically European Types of Capital?; Anne-Catherine Wagner 9. European Business Leaders: A Focus on the Upper Layers of the European Field Power; Francois-Xavier Dudouet, Eric Gremont, Audrey Pageaut, Antoine Vion Conclusion: The Field of Eurocracy: A New Map for New Research Horizons; Didier Georgakakis

'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

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