People Building Europe

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).

• Introduction: Studying people building Europe Bibliographical Essay: Seeing into the trees; why EU personnel and professionals studies are flourishing and why they matter 1. Beyond the revolving door: professional paths of accredited parliamentary assistants after the European parliament 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 3. Civil society coalitions in the EU media regulation: when field theory meets network analysis 4. Between science, economics and politics: the changing face of political-economic European Expert Groups (1966–2018) 5. Reforming EU financial markets: mission impossible? The field of Eurocracy and private interests in MiFID revision 6. Emergency politics from the inside: EU staff and the building of a task force during the Greek crisis 7. Elite fidelity in Europe’s crisis management regime 8. Four leaders, four decades: leadership and European parliament’s secretaries-general 9. Mothers, parliamentarians, leaders: career factors influencing women's representation in the European Parliament – a case study of German parliamentarians 10. One EU civil service or many? The European Commission and the council secretariat 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 12. Developing the concept of consequential senior European Union civil servants as sub-political policy entrepreneurs Conclusions: into the forest