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