A political sociology of the European Union

Reassessing constructivism

By: Jay Rowell (Editor), Michel Mangenot (Editor), Thomas Christiansen (Editor)

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Hardcover | 18 November 2011

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The study of the European Union has historically been a theoretical battleground. Since the 1990s, new theoretical directions such as neo-institutionalism, multi-level governance and constructivism have provided a new impetus. However, despite these new inroads, empirical work has often remained sociologically and empirically underspecified. This volume seeks to bridge the gap between theory and fieldwork by developing an actor-centered political sociology. In doing so, the volume engages in a critical dialogue with the constructivist framework and proposes to build on its insights through a sociological hardening centered on European actors. The renewal of European studies through political sociology is only useful if it generates new understandings through empirical observation. This volume seeks to take a new tack on constructivism by asking what it is that Europe constructs by looking at three areas -- social spaces and professions, policy “problems” and policies, and policy instruments such as the Eurobarometer.

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List of contributors	p. vii
List of figures, tables and boxes	p. ix
List of abbreviations	p. xi
Preface: Revitalising EU studies through constructivism	p. xiii
Introduction: What Europe constructs: towards a sociological constructivism	p. 1
The construction of European fields
Making top civil servants: Europeanness as an identity and a resource	p. 25
The invention and transformation of a governmental body: the Council Secretariat	p. 46
Lawyers as Europe's middlemen: a sociology of litigants pleading before the European Court of Justice	p. 68
The emergence of'European' careers in subnational French administrations	p. 88
The social construction of European problems
Constitutional activism and fundamental rights in Europe: common interests through transnational socialisation	p. 109
The construction of a European interest through legal expertise: property owners' associations and the Charter of Fundamental Rights	p. 128
A constructivist-institutionalist approach to EU politics: the case of Protected Geographical Indications for food	p. 146
The European Parliament and the politicisation of the European space: the case of the two port packages	p. 164
Constructing reality through policy instruments
From integration by law to Europeanisation by numbers: the making of a 'competitive Europe' through intergovernmental benchmarking	p. 185
From instruments to the instrumentalisation of 'European opinion': a historical sociology of the measurement of opinions and the management of the public space	p. 206
Expert measurement in the government of lifelong learning	p. 225
The instrumentation of European disability policy: constructing a policy field with numbers	p. 243
Index	p. 263
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