Jeffrey Turk is a physicist and European scholar at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and currently affliated with the Centre for Sociological Research, KU Leuven.Adam Mrozowicki is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology, University of Wroclaw (Poland).

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgements1. Introduction: the Need for Realist Biography in European Policy StudiesAdam Mrozowicki, Jeffrey David Turk & Markieta Domecka2. Realism and Social Research: A Morphogenetic ApproachBob Carter3. Biography-using Research (BNIM), Sostris, Institutional Regimes, and Critical Psycho-Societal RealismTom Wengraf with Prue Chamberlayne4. Biographical Costs of Transnational Mobility in the European SpaceAntonella Spanà², Elisabetta Perone & Markieta Domecka5. Biographical Approach in the Study of Identities of Ethnic Minorities in Eastern Europe Lyudmila Nurse6. Social Dialogue as a European Social Field: Setting up a “Critical Realist” Explanatory Framework of the Practices of the European Works Councils in Multinationals in EuropeValeria Pulignano & Norbert Kluge7. Biographies and the Drafting of EU Environmental Policy in an Anthropological FrameworkTatiana Bajuk SenÄar & Jeffrey David Turk8. Linking Structural and Agential Powers: A Realist Approach to Biographies, Careers and ReflexivityMarkieta Domecka & Adam MrozowickiContributorsIndexList of FiguresFigure 1.1 Realist science: checking knowledge against the worldFigure 8.1 C areer patterns in workers' and business milieus and the types of reflexivityList of TablesTable 3.1 I llustration of the twin tracks and three columns of the BNIM methodTable 5.1 S ummary of the biographical cases Table 6.1 S ummary of the type and content of EWCs practices

In Realist Biography and European Policy, the editors are to be congratulated for putting forward a cogent case for the strength of the Critical Realist paradigm as a principle underlying sound research methodology.Robert L. Miller, Queen's University of BelfastThe work is at the leading edge of international (European) scholarship in the fields of biographical research and its application to questions of European policy.Howard Davis, Bangor University