« Europe’s crisis of legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers in the Eurozone » - Vivien A. SCHMIDT

Séance 3 : Présentation et discussion du dernier ouvrage « sur l’Europe » de la politiste américaine, Vivien A. Schmidt : « Europe’s crisis of legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers in the Eurozone ».

Auteur : Vivien A. SCHMIDT, est titulaire d’une chaire Jean Monnet d’intégration européenne, professeure de relations internationales à la Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies et de sciences politiques à la Boston University. Elle est également fondatrice du Center for the Study of Europe (Boston University).

Résumé de l'ouvrage :
SCHMIDT Vivien A., Europe’s crisis of legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers in the Eurozone, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, 384 pages.

« This volume examines the interrelationship between democratic legitimacy at the European level and the ongoing Eurozone crisis that began in 2010.

Europe’s crisis of legitimacy stems from ‘governing by rules and ruling by numbers’ in the sovereign debt crisis, which played havoc with the eurozone economy while fueling political discontent. Using the lens of democratic theory, the book assesses the legitimacy of EU governing activities first in terms of their procedural quality (‘throughput),’ by charting EU actors’ different pathways to legitimacy, and then evaluates their policy effectiveness (‘output’) and political responsiveness (‘input’). In addition to an engaging and distinctive analysis of Eurozone crisis governance and its impact on democratic legitimacy, the book offers a number of theoretical insights into the broader question of the functioning of the EU and supranational governance more generally. It concludes with proposals for how to remedy the EU’s problems of legitimacy, reinvigorate its national democracies, and rethink its future. »

Discussion :

• Muriel ROUYER, Professeure de sciences politiques à l’Université de Nantes (DCS) et Senior Fellow au Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation (Harvard Kennedy School)
   
• Morgane DELORME, Doctorante en sciences politiques à l’Université de Nantes (DCS) et en philosophie à l’Université de Montréal (CRE)