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Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology Series Editors Carlo Ruzza Department of Sociology and Social Research University of Trento Trento, Italy Hans-Jörg Trenz Department of Media, Cognition & Communication University of Copenhagen Copenhagen, Denmark Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology addresses contempor- fi ary themes in the eld of Political Sociology. Over recent years, atten- tion has turned increasingly to processes of Europeanization and globalization and the social and political spaces that are opened by them.Theseprocessescomprisebothinstitutional-constitutionalchange and new dynamics of social transnationalism. Europeanization and ff globalization are also about changing power relations as they a ect ’ peoples lives, social networks and forms of mobility. The Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology series addresses linkages between regulation, institution building and the full range of societal repercussions at local, regional, national, European and global level, and will sharpen understanding of changing patterns of attitudes andbehavioursofindividuals andgroups,the politicaluseofnew rights fl and opportunities by citizens, new con ict lines and coalitions, societal interactions and networking, and shifting loyalties and solidarity within and across the European space. We welcome proposals from across the spectrum of Political Sociology and Political Science, on dimensions of citizenship; political attitudes and values;political communication and public spheres; states, commu- nities, governance structure and political institutions; forms of political participation; populism and the radical right; and democracy and democratization. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14630 Didier Georgakakis European Civil Service in (Times of) Crisis A Political Sociology of the Changing Power of Eurocrats DidierGeorgakakis DepartmentofPoliticalScience/EuropeanCentreforSociologyandPoliticalScience (CESSP) UniversitéParis1Panthéon-Sorbonne Paris,France TranslatedbyMarinaUrquidi PalgraveStudiesinEuropeanPoliticalSociology ISBN978-3-319-51791-9 ISBN978-3-319-51792-6(eBook) DOI10.1007/978-3-319-51792-6 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2017941709 ©TheEditor(s)(ifapplicable)andTheAuthor(s)2017 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsaresolelyandexclusivelylicensedbythePublisher,whether thewholeorpartofthematerialisconcerned,specificallytherightsoftranslation,reprinting,reuseof illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similarordissimilarmethodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. 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Coverillustration:WolfgangHorsch Printedonacid-freepaper ThisPalgraveMacmillanimprintispublishedbySpringerNature TheregisteredcompanyisSpringerInternationalPublishingAG Theregisteredcompanyaddressis:Gewerbestrasse11,6330Cham,Switzerland To Manue, Julie and Karine, and my students (former and future) Acknowledgements fi This book gives an account of eld work and features papers, lectures fl and more generally, re ections spread over nearly 20 years. There are therefore many people to thank. The very large number of colleagues who agreed to review or comment on my work in one or another of the stages are thanked in each chapter (I hope I have not forgot too many), as well as the journals, in particular Actes de la Recherche en Sciences ’ SocialesandRevuefrançaisedadministrationpublique,whichagreedtolet me use the material for Chapter 4 free of copyright. IwouldalsoliketothankMarinedeLassalle.Notonlydidshekindly authorize me to revise and translate the paper for Actes that we had producedtogether(Chapter4)butshehasalsobeenaconstantsourceof fi encouragementandsupportinthepursuitofmy eldworkonEuropean actors, particularly the EU civil servants, whenever our collective adven- ture in building the Group of European Political Sociology between 2000 and 2007 in Strasbourg would leave us some time, as well as later, whenIhadenteredtheInstitutUniversitairedeFrance.Manythanksto mycolleaguesinthesetwoinstitutionsfortheirfrequentsupportaswell. I would like to thank my colleagues of the European Centre for Sociology and Political Science (CNRS, Paris 1, EHESS), especially its two successive directors, Gisèle Sapiro and Jean-Louis Briquet for their support. The research centre ensuing from the merging of two centres created,onebyPierreBourdieuandtheotherbyMauriceDuverger,isa vii viii Acknowledgements constantsourceofinspiration,aswellasallthegreatdiscussionswehave there about the European Institutions. Being part of the centre also openedthedoortotheExcellenceLaboratoryTEPSIS(Écoledeshautes études en sciences sociales, Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne), which subsi- dized the translation and has constantly encouraged me to speak and write about Europe and its bureaucracies. My special thanks to its multidisciplinary and high-level academic board for supporting this book. Lastly, I will never thank Marina Urquidi enough for her translation ffi of this book. Translation is always a di cult exercise, but more parti- cularly in this case. Wishing to bring to an international and English- speaking readershipa political-sociologybook inspired byBourdieu and ff dealing with the EU implies being at the crossroads of very di erent fi lexical elds and very often, to reach impossible balances. Throughout fi this demanding challenge, Marina largely con rmed her vocation as a European and did the best that could be hoped for. I also thank her for the intellectual stimulation that grew out of our discussions, many of which went beyond the technical questions to deal with the political issues involved in a translation, from fonction publique to civil service, the State and the states, status and statutes, competences, competencies and skills, which when moving from one language to another are unquestionably a component at the core of the object of this book. Many thanks, too, to Carolyn Ban, Jay Rowell and Andy Smith for fi their amicable contribution to the reviewing process in the nal stretch! fi My thanks, nally, to Carlo Ruzza and Hans-Jörg Trenz for having proposed that I publish this work in their collection. Contents 1 Introduction: Moving Pictures 1 – 2 A Contested Identity: Genesis of the Eurocrat Figure ffi ff Between Stigma and A rmation of a Di erentiated Supranational Body 23 3 TheMakingofaStatusGroup:ReconsideringSocialization to the European Institutions 53 4 Genesis and Structure of European Bureaucratic Capital: ffi Senior European Commission O cials 93 5 Soft Skills Versus Expertise and Knowledge: The Changing Core Competencies of European Civil Servants 143 ‘ 6 ReformingEUOpenCompetitionsorHowthe Custodians ’ of Europe Now Mimic International Managers 173 7 How Domination Matters: New Internal Struggles and Integrating European-Enlargement Newcomers 211 ix x Contents 8 Both the Pilot and a Victim of Austerity? How the ’ European Commissions Administration Changed under the Economic and Financial Crisis 255 9 Conclusion: Neoliberalized Neoliberalists? The Weakening Sociological Foundations of a Pivot Group and European Political Order 285 References 303 Index 325
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