LEADER 04050nam 22006015 450 001 9910252723003321 005 20240313122556.0 010 97$a83319517926$b(electronic bk.) 010 $a9783319517926 010 $a3319517929 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-51792-6 035 $a(CKB)3710000001632904 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-51792-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4996735 035 $a(PPN)221424520 035 $a(Perlego)3496951 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001632904 100 $a20170830d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEuropean Civil Service in (Times of) Crisis $eA Political Sociology of the Changing Power of Eurocrats /$fby Didier Georgakakis 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 335 p. )$cill 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in European Political Sociology,$x2946-6024 311 08$a9783319517919 311 08$a3319517910 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Moving pictures -- 1. A contested identity: genesis of the Eurocrat figure: between stigma and affirmation of a differentiated supranational body -- 2. The making of a status group: Reconsidering socialization to the European Institutions -- 3. Genesis and structure of European bureaucratic capital: Senior European Commission officials -- 4. Soft skills versus expertise and knowledge: The changing core competencies of European civil servants -- 5. Reforming EU open competitions or how the 'Custodians of Europe' are now imitating undifferentiated international managers -- 6. How domination matters: New internal struggles and integrating European-enlargement newcomers -- 7. Both the pilot and a victim of austerity? How the European Commission's administration changed under the economic and financial crisis.-Conclusion: Neoliberalized neoliberalists? The weakening sociological foundations of a pivot group and European political order. 330 $aThis book, part of the new wave of political sociology in EU studies, examines the dialectics of construction/deconstruction of the European civil service through a succession of empirically grounded case studies. Breaking with the usual representations of 'Eurocrats', it sheds light on a hidden aspect of the current European crisis: a crisis of social reproduction which affects the European civil service in a heavy context of management reforms, enlargements, institutional changes and the euro crisis. This in turn has a number of consequences in terms of internal tensions, power, and more broadly, the capacity of EU institutions to create convergence between diverging national and economic interests, and to embody a European future. European Civil Service in (Times of) Crisis will be of interest to students and scholars across a wide range of disciplines, including politics, sociology and public administration, to practitioners working in and with the EU institutions,as well as those wishing to know more about the EU. . 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in European Political Sociology,$x2946-6024 606 $aPolitical sociology 606 $aEconomics$xSociological aspects 606 $aEurope$xPolitics and government 606 $aPolitical Sociology 606 $aEconomic Sociology 606 $aEuropean Politics 615 0$aPolitical sociology. 615 0$aEconomics$xSociological aspects. 615 0$aEurope$xPolitics and government. 615 14$aPolitical Sociology. 615 24$aEconomic Sociology. 615 24$aEuropean Politics. 676 $a306.2 686 $a10.12$2EP-CLASS 700 $aGeorgakakis$b Didier$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01060888 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910252723003321 996 $aEuropean Civil Service in (Times of) Crisis$92516060 997 $aUNINA