Europe’s Crisis of Legitimacy | Prof. Vivien Schmidt and Prof. Kolja Raube

Europe’s Crisis of Legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers in the Eurozone. This webinar was held on 23 October 2019. Moderator: Alex Andrione-Moylan

Vivien A. Schmidt is Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration and Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Boston University. Kolja Raube is Senior Member and Research Manager at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and Assistant Professor for European Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences at KU Leuven.

In this webinar Professor Schmidt will present her forthcoming book on "Europe's crisis of legitimacy" (Oxford University Press 2020). She will discuss how the EU’s (euro) crisis of legitimacy centers on problems related to (a lack of) policy effectiveness, political responsiveness, and procedural quality. But she also contends that in pursuit of legitimacy as much as in response to deteriorating economics and increasing political volatility, EU institutional actors—ECB, Council, Commission, and EP—incrementally reinterpreted the rules and recalibrated the numbers ‘by stealth,’ that is, without admitting it in their public discourse. To theorize about such processes of ideational innovation and discursive legitimation during the Eurozone crisis, Prof. Schmidt uses the neo-institutionalist framework of discursive institutionalism.

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