European Civil Service in (Times of) Crisis : A Political Sociology of the Changing Power of Eurocrats

• Main Author: Georgakakis, Didier (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
• Subjects: Social sciences.; European Union.; Economic sociology.; Political sociology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319517926
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51792-6
• Physical Description: XIII, 329 p. 13 illus. online resource.

This 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...