European civil service in (times of) crisis : a political sociology of the changing power of Eurocrats / Didier Georgakakis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Georgakakis, Didier, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

PALGRAVE STUDIES IN EUROPEAN POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil service--European Union countries.

Civil service.

Europe--Social conditions--21st century.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

Contents:

European Civil Service in (Times of) Crisis; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction: Moving Pictures; Another Crisis; The Politics of Forming a European Body; Studying a Changing Power; Outline; 2 A Contested Identity: Genesis of the Eurocrat Figure

Between Stigma and Affirmation of a Differentiated Supranational Body; Denouncing the Eurocrats and Institutionalizing 'Resistances' to Supranationality; Reflection of a Risk; An Instrument to Open Political Opportunities; European Oracles Versus European Technocrats

On the Euro-Functionary Side:Inverting the Stigma and Stylizing the GroupEurocracy in Practice; Eurocracy as a Style; 3 The Making of a Status Group: Reconsidering Socialization to the European Institutions; A Status Group, or European Civil Servants as a Social Group; Institutional Production of a Social Position; Institutional Production of an Ethos of European Public Service; Why Habitus Matters or What It Means to Become 'European'; 4 Genesis and Structure of European Bureaucratic Capital: Senior European Commission Officials; Genesis of a European Institutional Capital

Building a Body and Denationalizing the HabitusA Compliant Morphology; Differentiation of Specific Symbolic Capital; The Space of Senior European Civil Service and Distribution of Institutional Capital; The Commission as a Bipolar Social Structure; Trend Inversion in the Hierarchies; Weight within the Structure and Personal Inclination; Methodological Appendix; Calculated Variables; Indicators of Career Prior to Appointment; Principal Component Analysis (PCA); PCA Standard Data; Factorial Design; Illustrative variables; Classification

5 Soft Skills Versus Expertise and Knowledge: The Changing Core Competencies of European Civil ServantsCore Competencies at Stake; Practice Versus Theory? Modern Versus Old?; The Stakes Involved in Redefining the Social Competency of European Functionaries; Objectification of Competency, Break with the Founding Ambiguity and Reversal of the Group's Collective Trajectory; The Ambivalences of Standardization; 6 Reforming EU Open Competitions or How the 'Custodians of Europe' Now Mimic International Managers; An Open Competition for All Seasons?; A Few Background Elements

Statutory Genesis of the Open Competition for European Civil Service: Between a Supranational Spirit and Internal StrugglesBeyond the Doctrine, Incremental Reforms; Building the Symbolic Capital and the Esprit de Corps of an Alternative Elite; Breaking with Social Reproduction?; A Radical Break; 'Attracting the Best Talents' or 'Destroying the European Civil Service from the Inside'?; Conclusion; 7 How Domination Matters: New Internal Struggles and Integrating European-Enlargement Newcomers; Ethnographic Observation 1, DG Translation, April 2009

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 14, 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319517926

3319517929

Publisher Number:

99992476644

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