People Building Europe New Developments in EU Personnel and Professionals Studies

Introduction: Studying people building Europe

Martin Westlake and Didier Georgakakis

Bibliographical Essay: Seeing into the trees; why EU personnel and professionals studies are flourishing and why they matter

Didier Georgakakis and Martin Westlake

1. Beyond the revolving door: professional paths of accredited parliamentary assistants after the European parliament

Valentin Behr and Sébastien Michon

2. The EU leadership constellation: neither monist nor pluralist, but triarchical. An analysis of the profiles of the 300 dominant administrative and political positions in the EU institutions in 2021

Didier Georgakakis and Sophia Bordier

3. Civil society coalitions in the EU media regulation: when field theory meets network analysis

Luis Bouza, Juan Roch and Álvaro Oleart

4. Between science, economics and politics: the changing face of political-economic European Expert Groups (1966–2018)

Christian Schmidt-Wellenburg

5. Reforming EU financial markets: mission impossible? The field of Eurocracy and private interests in MiFID revision

Yiorgos Vassalos

6. Emergency politics from the inside: EU staff and the building of a task force during the Greek crisis

Marylou Hamm

7. Elite fidelity in Europe’s crisis management regime

Cornel Ban and Leonard Seabrooke

8. Four leaders, four decades: leadership and European parliament’s secretaries-general

Andreja Pegan

9. Mothers, parliamentarians, leaders: career factors influencing women's representation in the European Parliament – a case study of German parliamentarians

Elena Frech

10. One EU civil service or many? The European Commission and the council secretariat

Sara Connolly and Hussein Kassim

11. The policymakers of European economic and monetary cooperation: staff and network of the European Commission’s directorate-general for economic and financial affairs, 1957–1992

Alexis Drach and Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol

12. Developing the concept of consequential senior European Union civil servants as sub-political policy entrepreneurs

Martin Westlake

Conclusions: into the forest

Martin Westlake and Didier Georgakakis

Biography

Didier Georgakakis is a French Political Scientist specialized in the Political Sociology of the European Union. A Professor of Political Science and Jean Monnet Chair at Sorbonne School of Politics (Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne), he is also a member of the European Centre for Sociology and Political Science (CNRS/P1/EHESS), a Senior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France, and has been a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges) since 2007 and is Academic Coordinator of its Inter-Departmental European Advanced Studies (IDEAs) Programme.

Martin Westlake is a British Political Scientist and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges) and at the European Institute of the London School of Economics (United Kingdom). He has spent over four decades studying European integration and working in European Union government and politics. He has published widely on the European institutions and on European and British politics. He is also the author of a major political biography (Kinnock, The Biography).