Eurocrats at Work:
Negotiating Transparency in Postnational Employment Policy
Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology, No. 58

By Renita Thedvall
July 2006
Stockholm University
ISBN: 9171551867
252 pages, 5 3/4 x 8 1/4"
$87.50 Paper Original

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This Ph.D. dissertation presents an ethnography of the work of bureaucrats in the European Union, in particular in the European Commission and the Swedish government. The aim of the study is to investigate the workings and dynamics of policy-making in the area of employment. More specifically, the study explores the processes of making policy decisions quantifiable and transparent, and the assumptions underlying these processes.

Partial contents:
Social Europe in the making.
Postnational EU in the making.
Transparency in process?
Building Social Europe.
Quality in work.
EU chronology. Engaging in Eurospeak.
The bureaucratic logic of quantification.
Turning policy into numbers.
Comparing statistical tables.
Making the nation-state transparent.
EU employment policy in the new century.
A post(inter)national European community?
References.
Index.

Anthropology; Sociology


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