The Field of Eurocracy: Mapping EU Actors and Professionals

289 Pages·2013·1.01 MB·English

by  Didier Georgakakis

The Field of Eurocracy
Didier Georgakakis
and
Jay Rowell
Mapping EU Actors and Professionals
The Field of Eurocracy
European Administrative Governance series
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POLICY-MAKING IN EU SECURITY AND DEFENCE
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THE FIELD OF EUROCRACY
Mapping EU Actors and Professionals
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The Field of Eurocracy
Mapping EU Actors and Professionals
Edited by
Didier Georgakakis
Professor of Political Science, University of Paris I-Sorbonne
and
Jay Rowell
Research Director CNRS, University of Strasbourg
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Contents

List of Tables v ii
List of Figures i x
Acknowledgments x
Notes on Contributors x i
List of Abbreviations xii
Introduction: Studying Eurocracy as a Bureaucratic Field 1
Didier Georgakakis and Jay Rowell
1 M EPs: Towards a Specialization of European Political Work? 1 6
W illy Beauvallet and Sébastien Michon
2 T ensions within Eurocracy: A Socio-morphological Perspective 3 5
D idier Georgakakis
3 T he Permanent Representatives to the EU:
Going Native in the European Field? 6 1
F ilippa Chatzistavrou
4 E CB Leaders. A New European Monetary Elite? 8 7
F rédéric Lebaron
5 T he World of European Information: The Institutional and
Relational Genesis of the EU Public Sphere 1 05
P hilippe Aldrin
6 E xpert Groups in the Field of Eurocracy 1 37
C écile Robert
7 I nterest Groups and Lobbyists in the European Political
Space: The Permanent Eurocrats 1 66
G uillaume Courty and Hélène Michel
8 T he Personnel of the European Trade Union Confederation:
Specifically European Types of Capital? 1 88
A nne-Catherine Wagner
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9 E uropean Business Leaders. A Focus on the
Upper Layers of the European Field Power 2 02
F rançois-Xavier Dudouet, Eric Grémont, Audrey Pageaut and
Antoine Vion
Conclusion: The Field of Eurocracy: A New Map for
New Research Horizons 226
Didier Georgakakis
References 2 48
Index of Names 2 69
Index of Institutions and Concepts 272
List of Tables

1.1 Distribution of occupation and degree levels in the sixth EP 21
1.2 Gender distribution in the sixth EP depending on country
of election (in descending order) 22
1.3 Proportion of MEPs of the sixth EP having previously
exercised a national mandate or been a member
of government 25
1.4 Indicators of seniority of the sixth EP MEPs (decreasing order) 27
1.5 MEPs of the sixth EP and leadership positions 28
1.6 Model of logistic regression on the occupation of a
leadership position at the EP by MEPs of the sixth EP 31
2.1 Position before becoming DG 44
2.2 Percentage of careers spent in business/national public
service/EU careers 45
2.3 Studies in foreign countries of directors-general 46
2.4 DGs (and deputy DGs) who have been members of a
cabinet of a commissioner 47
2.5 Pre-commissioner career: highest former position 51
2.6 Last experience before Commission 52
2.7 Commissioners having been MPs; by nationality 53
2.8 Commissioners having been MEPs 54
2.9 Number of mandates in the EC 55
2.10 Types of post-Commission careers (most significant position) 57
3.1 Coverage rate per member state 63
3.2 Profile of the permanent representatives 66
4.1 The governors of the eurozone and the
other European governors 93
4.2 Dominant sector of the career 94
4.3 Social composition indicators of the different
monetary policy councils (1999–2009) 99
4.4 Dominant aspect of the career 100
6.1 Participation in expert groups per category of actors 145
6.2 Principal ‘configurations’ of expert groups 145
7.1 The Transparency Register 169
9.1 Distribution of the links through stock exchange indices 211
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viii List of Tables
9.2 Density of the inter-corporate network,
December 31, 2006 (binary) 2 11
9.3 Distribution of relational capital from its proximity
with transnational actors 212
9.4 Individual trajectories 222
List of Figures
1.1 A multiple correspondence analysis representing the
distribution of socio-political and institutional
characteristics of MEPs of the sixth EP 29
3.1 Unmixed careers over time (exclusively in the
civil service) 68
3.2 Access to positions of power after transition as PR 70
3.3 Technical profile of deputy PRs per country 75
3.4 Successive combination of the positions of deputy
PR and PR 75
3.5 European Institutions – ‘port of call’ 78
7.1 Average number of groups created per year according
to the various Commission directories 171
9.1 Corporate networks of the companies listed in the
five main stock exchange indices of the eurozone,
December 31, 2006 210
9.2 Pargesa, December 31, 2008 2 15
10.1 Representation of the field in terms of the distribution of
overall capital linked to the degree of permanence in the field 229
10.2 Representation of the field in the form of two structures
of opposition: between insiders and outsiders and
between the public sector and the business world 232
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