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European Civil Service in (Times of) Crisis -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction: Moving Pictures -- Another Crisis -- The Politics of Forming a European Body -- Studying a Changing Power -- Outline -- 2 A Contested Identity: Genesis of the Eurocrat Figure - Between Stigma and Affirmation of a Differentiated Supranational Body -- Denouncing the Eurocrats and Institutionalizing 'Resistances' to Supranationality -- Reflection of a Risk -- An Instrument to Open Political Opportunities -- European Oracles Versus European Technocrats -- On the Euro-Functionary Side:Inverting the Stigma and Stylizing the Group -- Eurocracy in Practice -- Eurocracy as a Style -- 3 The Making of a Status Group: Reconsidering Socialization to the European Institutions -- A Status Group, or European Civil Servants as a Social Group -- Institutional Production of a Social Position -- Institutional Production of an Ethos of European Public Service -- Why Habitus Matters or What It Means to Become 'European' -- 4 Genesis and Structure of European Bureaucratic Capital: Senior European Commission Officials -- Genesis of a European Institutional Capital -- Building a Body and Denationalizing the Habitus -- A Compliant Morphology -- Differentiation of Specific Symbolic Capital -- The Space of Senior European Civil Service and Distribution of Institutional Capital -- The Commission as a Bipolar Social Structure -- Trend Inversion in the Hierarchies -- Weight within the Structure and Personal Inclination -- Methodological Appendix -- Calculated Variables -- Indicators of Career Prior to Appointment -- Principal Component Analysis (PCA) -- PCA Standard Data -- Factorial Design -- Illustrative variables -- Classification -- 5 Soft Skills Versus Expertise and Knowledge: The Changing Core Competencies of European Civil Servants

International audience ; »Yanis (Varoufakis), der Minotaurus und das Feld der Eurokratie«. This paper aims to show the binding force within the social field of Eurocracy and, more specifically, the subfield of the European economic governance, through the singular case of Yanis Varoufakis's experience as Greek minister of finance. Why is it that, while many elements might have suggested that Varoufakis was not lacking resources, his passage from economics into politics ended up in a fairly brutal shock and a mutual exclusion so extremely invested in on the symbolic level? The paper's hypothesis is that a substantial part of the strategies of the epistemic agent Varoufakis-an experienced economist as well as new ruler and new politician in the EU game-were completely out of tune with the structure of the field. To show this, the paper deliberately breaks with the causal analysis of the bargain inside the Eurogroup to build on the use of two multiple correspondence analyses (MCA). The first describes a view of (and from) the silent fraction of the field, composed of insiders in the European administrations. The second reconstructs Varoufakis's own relational position and vision of the game from the book he wrote on his experience. Thanks to these two approaches, we combine a descriptive-institutional and a narrativeindividual construction of the same social space to explore its deep structure and effects in an innovative way.

International audience ; »Yanis (Varoufakis), der Minotaurus und das Feld der Eurokratie«. This paper aims to show the binding force within the social field of Eurocracy and, more specifically, the subfield of the European economic governance, through the singular case of Yanis Varoufakis's experience as Greek minister of finance. Why is it that, while many elements might have suggested that Varoufakis was not lacking resources, his passage from economics into politics ended up in a fairly brutal shock and a mutual exclusion so extremely invested in on the symbolic level? The paper's hypothesis is that a substantial part of the strategies of the epistemic agent Varoufakis-an experienced economist as well as new ruler and new politician in the EU game-were completely out of tune with the structure of the field. To show this, the paper deliberately breaks with the causal analysis of the bargain inside the Eurogroup to build on the use of two multiple correspondence analyses (MCA). The first describes a view of (and from) the silent fraction of the field, composed of insiders in the European administrations. The second reconstructs Varoufakis's own relational position and vision of the game from the book he wrote on his experience. Thanks to these two approaches, we combine a descriptive-institutional and a narrativeindividual construction of the same social space to explore its deep structure and effects in an innovative way.

This paper aims to show the binding force within the social field of Eurocracy and, more specifically, the subfield of the European economic governance, through the singular case of Yanis Varoufakis's experience as Greek minister of finance. Why is it that, while many elements might have suggested that Varoufakis was not lacking resources, his passage from economics into politics ended up in a fairly brutal shock and a mutual exclusion so extremely invested in on the symbolic level? The paper's hypothesis is that a substantial part of the strategies of the epistemic agent Varoufakis – an experienced economist as well as new ruler and new politician in the EU game – were completely out of tune with the structure of the field. To show this, the paper deliberately breaks with the causal analysis of the bargain inside the Eurogroup to build on the use of two multiple correspondence analyses (MCA). The first describes a view of (and from) the silent fraction of the field, composed of insiders in the European administrations. The second reconstructs Varoufakis's own relational position and vision of the game from the book he wrote on his experience. Thanks to these two approaches, we combine a descriptive-institutional and a narrative-individual construction of the same social space to explore its deep structure and effects in an innovative way.

This paper aims to show the binding force within the social field of Eurocracy and, more specifically, the subfield of the European economic governance, through the singular case of Yanis Varoufakis's experience as Greek minister of finance. Why is it that, while many elements might have suggested that Varoufakis was not lacking resources, his passage from economics into politics ended up in a fairly brutal shock and a mutual exclusion so extremely invested in on the symbolic level? The paper's hypothesis is that a substantial part of the strategies of the epistemic agent Varoufakis - an experienced economist as well as new ruler and new politician in the EU game - were completely out of tune with the structure of the field. To show this, the paper deliberately breaks with the causal analysis of the bargain inside the Eurogroup to build on the use of two multiple correspondence analyses (MCA). The first describes a view of (and from) the silent fraction of the field, composed of insiders in the European administrations. The second reconstructs Varoufakis's own relational position and vision of the game from the book he wrote on his experience. Thanks to these two approaches, we combine a descriptive-institutional and a narrative-individual construction of the same social space to explore its deep structure and effects in an innovative way.

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