Schmidt Speaks at Conference on European Democracy
Vivien Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Europe, spoke at an October 7, 2016 conference on democracy and European institutions put on by the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation.
Schmidt spoke as part of a panel entitled “European Democracy vs. National Democracy” with German economic sociologist and Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne Wolfgang Streeck.
You can watch the panel here:
Other presenters at the conference included Ian Shapiro, Jean Cohen, Chantal Mouffe, Helène Landemore, Yannis Papadopoulos, Daniel Innerarity and more. You can watch presentations from the entire conference here.
Prof. Schmidt is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at Boston University. Her research focuses on European political economy, institutions, democracy, and political theory. She has published ten books, over 100 scholarly journal articles or chapters in books, and numerous policy briefs and comments, most recently on the Eurozone crisis. Her current work focuses on democratic legitimacy in Europe, with a special focus on the challenges resulting from the Eurozone crisis, and on methodological theory, in particular on the importance of ideas and discourse in political analysis (discursive institutionalism). You can learn more about her here.