Schmidt Speaks at European Parliament on Democracy in Europe
Vivien Schmidt, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, gave a February 7, 2019 talk at the European Parliamentary Research Service in Brussels on her 2006 book Democracy in Europe, and her forthcoming text, Europe’s Crisis of Legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers in the Eurozone.
The talk, part of a book talk series with authors of important books on Europe, was introduced by the Director-General of the Research Service, Anthony Teasdale, and the Discussant was Deputy Direct General of the Council Secretariat, Jim Cloos. Schmidt’s Democracy in Europe was named by the European Parliament in 2015 as “one of the 100 books on Europe to remember.”
You can listen to the talk below:
Audio PlayerSchmidt 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 a dozen books, over 200 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). She is a 2018 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for a US-EU comparative study of the ‘rhetoric of discontent.’ She is a Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor — France’s highest honor.