Decentring European Governance
Conforming neither to the hierarchical and bureaucratic organization of the European nation-state nor the anarchical structure of international organizations, the European Union (EU) and its predecessors provide an exemplary site for developing a decentred approach to the study of governance.
The book offers an analysis of the formation and transformation of the EU as an example of governance above the nation-state and is framed by the recognition that the construction of the EU has resulted in variegated and decentred forms of governance. The chapters look at distinct aspects of EU governance to bring to light the influence of elite narratives, scientific rationalities, local traditions and meaningful practices in the making and remaking of European governance. As such, each chapter offers a unique contribution to the study of the EU. In doing so, the book challenges dominant narratives of European integration and policymaking that appeal to reified rationalities and social structures, and uncovers the contingency and conflict endemic to European governance.
This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Union politics, European politics/studies, governance and, more broadly, to public management, international organizations, anthropology and sociology.
Mark Bevir is a professor in the Department of Political Science, and Director of the Center for British Studies, at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Ryan Phillips is an assistant professor of Political Science at Lycoming College, USA.
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Decentring European Governance
Edited by Mark Bevir and Ryan Phillips
Decentring European Governance
Edited by Mark Bevir and Ryan Phillips
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Contents
Editors
Mark Bevir is a professor in the Department of Political Science, and director of the Center for British Studies, at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a professor in the Graduate School of Governance, United Nations University MERIT, Maastricht, Netherlands, and a Distinguished Research Professor in the College of Arts and Humanities, Swansea University, UK. He is the author or editor of various books, most recently Interpretive Social Science: An Anti-naturalist Approach (with Jason Blakely, Oxford University Press, 2018).
Ryan Phillips is an assistant professor of Political Science at Lycoming College. His research focuses on the European Union, democracy and methodology. He is currently working on a book manuscript that addresses the constitutionalization of democracy in the EU since the early 1990s. His previous research has appeared in Comparative European Politics and The British Journal of Politics & International Relations.
Contributors
William Biebuyck teaches global politics and human security within the International Studies program at Georgia Southern University. His current research explores transitional genealogies in food security and agrarian policy. His published work has appeared in journals such as Comparative European Politics and the European Journal of Social Theory.
Caterina Carta is an associate professor at the Political Science Department of Laval University (Qubec City, Canada). Before being invited by Laval University to hold the Canada Research Chair in Public Diplomacy, Caterina Carta was an assistant professor at Vesalius College from 2012 to 2017 and a postdoctoral researcher at the ULB from 2011 to 2012. Her research interest includes foreign policy, cultural and public diplomacy, discourse theory and analysis. Her publications include The European Unions Diplomatic Service: Ideas, Preferences and Identities (Routledge, 2012) and Making Sense ofDiversity: EUs Foreign Policy through the Lenses of Discourse Analysis (Ashgate, 2014), that she edited with Jean-Frederic Morin. Her publications have appeared in Review of International Studies, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Cooperation and Conflict, and Journal of Language and Politics.
Dion Curry is a senior lecturer in Public Policy at Swansea University. His current research focuses on the intersection of political trust and legitimacy and their effects on (and by) governance processes, including citizen-led governance initiatives. His book, Network Approaches to Multi-Level Governance, is available with Palgrave Macmillan.
Dorota Dakowska is a professor of Political Science at the University of Lyon 2 and Junior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France. She has published a book on the German political foundations and their involvement in democratization processes (