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

Abstract

"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 hidden aspect of the current European crisis: a crisis of social reproduction which affects the European civil service in a heavy context of management reforms, enlargements, institutional changes and the euro crisis. This in turn has a number of consequences in terms of internal tensions, power, and more broadly, the capacity of EU institutions to create convergence between diverging national and economic interests, and to embody a European future. European Civil Service in (Times of) Crisis will be of interest to students and scholars across a wide range of disciplines, including politics, sociology and public administration, to practitioners working in and with the EU institutions, as well as those wishing to know more about the EU."-- Moving pictures -- A contested identity : genesis of the Eurocrat figure : between stigma and affirmation of a differentiated supranational body -- The making of a status group : reconsidering socialization to the European institutions -- Genesis and structure of European bureaucratic capital : senior European Commission officials -- Soft skills versus expertise and knowledge : the changing core competencies of European civil servants -- Reforming EU open competitions or how the "custodians of Europe" now mimic international managers -- How domination matters : new internal struggles and integrating European-enlargement newcomers -- Both the pilot and a victim of austerity? : how the European Commission's administration changed under the economic and financial crisis -- Neoliberalized neoliberalists? : the weakening sociological foundations of a pivot group and European political order. 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 GroupEurocracy 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 HabitusA 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 ServantsCore Competencies at Stake; Practice Versus Theory? Modern Versus Old?; The Stakes Involved in Redefining the Social Competency of European Functionaries; Objectification of Competency, Break with the Founding Ambiguity and Reversal of the Group's Collective Trajectory; The Ambivalences of Standardization; 6 Reforming EU Open Competitions or How the 'Custodians of Europe' Now Mimic International Managers; An Open Competition for All Seasons?; A Few Background Elements. Statutory Genesis of the Open Competition for European Civil Service: Between a Supranational Spirit and Internal StrugglesBeyond the Doctrine, Incremental Reforms; Building the Symbolic Capital and the Esprit de Corps of an Alternative Elite; Breaking with Social Reproduction?; A Radical Break; 'Attracting the Best Talents' or 'Destroying the European Civil Service from the Inside'?; Conclusion; 7 How Domination Matters: New Internal Struggles and Integrating European-Enlargement Newcomers; Ethnographic Observation 1, DG Translation, April 2009.