Europeanisation, stateness, and professions
- The article explores Europeanisation as an effect of European political integration, a process driven by struggles over the legitimate political and social order that is to prevail in Europe. Firstly, an analytic framework is constructed, drawing on insights from Pierre Bourdieu’s work on similar struggles over nation-stateness. Secondly, the mechanisms identified are used to assess the role played by economic experts and expertise in the process of European political integration. It is argued that concepts arising from economic disciplines, agents educated in economics, and practising economic professionals influence European political integration and have benefited from Europeanisation initiated by this process. Special emphasis is placed on strategies of integrating Europe by law or by market, on governing Europe using economic expertise, on the role played by economic academia in researching and objectifying Europe, and on staffing European institutions with economists.
Author details: | Christian Schmidt-WellenburgORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412590 |
ISSN: | 1867-5808 |
Title of parent work (English): | Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe |
Subtitle (English): | what role do economic expertise and economic experts play in European political integration? |
Publication series (Volume number): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe (99) |
Publication type: | Postprint |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2018/12/03 |
Publication year: | 2017 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2018/12/03 |
Tag: | European Union; economics; field theory; neo-liberal governance; political integration; professions |
Issue: | 99 |
Number of pages: | 28 |
Source: | European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology 4 (2018) 4, S. 430–456 DOI: 10.1080/23254823.2017.1335222 |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft | |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access |
Grantor: | Taylor & Francis Open Access Agreement |
License (German): | CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |