Building Europe on a Weak Field: Law, Economics, and Scholarly Avatars in Transnational Politics

Mudge, Stephanie L.; Vauchez, André

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“…Economists in the policy field may simultaneously be acting in the professional field, and their policy actions are likely to reflect the position of the professional field regarding what constitutes core, high-status or legitimate knowledge (Breslau, 1998;Babb, 2001;Mudge and Vauchez, 2012;Reay, 2012). But because the two domains are partially independent, economic concepts such as the 'Laffer curve' may be influential in policy while being dismissed by academics (Berman and Milanes-Reyes, 2013), and economists may have a unified position on trade liberalization, for example, without creating a similar consensus among policymakers (Chorev, 2007).…”

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“…From the professions literature in particular, we observe that the structure of the field of expertise shapes action in the policy field (Abbott, 2005;Fourcade, 2009;Mudge and Vauchez, 2012). Experts may be pursuing goals simultaneously in both domains, or disciplinary agreements about what constitutes legitimate knowledge may affect what experts do in the policy sphere (Breslau, 1997a).…”

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Do economists make policies? On the political effects of economics

Hirschman

Berman

2014

Socio-Economic Review

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Economics is often described as the most politically influential social science and yet economic advice is often largely irrelevant to prominent policy debates. We draw on literatures in political science, sociology and science and technology studies to explain this apparent contradiction. Existing research suggests that the influence of economics is mediated by local circumstances and meso-level social structures, and that much of it flows through indirect channels. We elaborate three sites of analysis useful for unpacking these influences: the broad professional authority of economics, the institutional position of economists in government, and the role of economics in the cognitive infrastructure of policymaking, including the diffusion of economic styles of reasoning and the establishment of economic policy devices for seeing and deciding.

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Do economists make policies? On the political effects of economics

Hirschman

Berman

2014

Socio-Economic Review

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“…' 'normalisation' of the constitutional reading of the Treaties, also among judges. 77 profiles is the level of knowledge of EU law that national judges have: It has been illustrated that on average the knowledge of EU law is assessed as the highest by those judges who are more experienced in their daily practice, trained, networked, knowledgeable in national law, and better educated in EU law. 80 The authors also illustrated how these differences are correlated with some contextual or institutional factors the judges operate in.…”

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Perspectives on Europeanization of National Judiciaries: Old and New Questions

Jaremba

Mayoral

2016

SSRN Journal

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Abstract:The aim of this article is to bring together different legal, political science and sociological perspectives addressing the problem of Europeanization of national judiciaries. In that sense, this article provides an overview of several old aspects regarding the way and extent national courts/judges adapted to their role of European judges. Next to that, it is looked into the manner of and reasons behind judges' involvement in the process of EU legal integration, whereby a new research agenda is offered. For that purpose, new questions are raised and different empirical aspects are discussed concerning, for instance, courts compliance with EU law, the relevance of national judges' individual profiles (knowledge, attitudes and values) but also the role of institutions (networks) and legal systems in the process of Europeanization of judges.KEYWORDS: Europeanization, national judiciary (courts and judges), Court of Justice of the European Union, CJEU, interdisciplinary, EU legal system. Juan Antonio Mayoral Diaz-Asensio is Post.doc at the Centre of Excellence for International Courts (iCourts), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. E-mail: juan.mayoral@jur.ku.dkUrszula Jaremba is Assistant Professor of EU law at the Utrecht University School of Law, Utrecht University. E-mail: u.jaremba@uu.nl 3This research is funded by the Danish National Research Foundation Grant no. DNRF105.iCourts -Centre of Excellence for International Courts -focuses on the ever-growing role of international courts, their place in a globalizing legal order, and their impact on politics and society at large. To understand these crucial and contemporary interplays of law, politics, and society, iCourts hosts a set of deeply integrated interdisciplinary research projects on the causes and consequences of the proliferation of international courts.iCourts opened in March 2012. The centre is funded by a large grant from the Danish National Research Foundation (for the period 2012-18). 4 A. INTRODUCTIONIt is now common knowledge that national courts of Member States, regardless of their position in the national legal system and the field of adjudication, are the key players in the processes of application and enforcement of European Union (EU) law 1 and the process of EU integration in general They are the core enforcers of the rights and obligations individuals derive from EU law, responsible for ensuring the effectiveness of EU law. They are also expected to participate in the process of legal integration within the EU through the preliminary ruling mechanism. The fact that EU law can directly affect interests of individuals in the EU, and may be invoked and relied upon by them before national courts, which are in turn obliged to protect their EU rights, has tremendous implications for the functioning of national judiciaries and the system of judicial protection in the European Union. For the foregoing reasons the national courts are also referred to as decentralized EU courts. 2In light of the foregoing, one mig...

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“…Economics is perhaps the most striking example; a discipline that not only developed economic theories promoting harmonization of the single market and the establishment of the EMU, but also participated in their legitimation and sometimes gained from their establishment in practice (Barry 1993;Hay and Rosamond 2002;Mudge and Vauchez 2012;Ryner 2012). The single market and the EMU point us to the entanglement between the political, economic and cultural processes of European integration on the one hand and developments in the social sciences on the other.…”

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A Sociology of Knowledge Approach to European Integration: Four Analytical Principles

Adler‐Nissen

Kropp

2015

Journal of European Integration

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Scholars are deeply involved in the process of European integration, but we lack systematic understanding of this involvement. On the one hand, scholars, academic ideas and ideologies shape European integration and policies (e.g. the Economic and Monetary Union and the free movement of people). On the other hand, EU institutions, policies and practitioners produce particular forms of knowledge (e.g. the Eurobarometer and benchmarking of national performances) that inform social scientific choices of theories, methods and research topics. Drawing on the new sociology of knowledge as well as Science and Technology Studies (STS) and political sociology, this introductory article develops a framework for studying the entanglement of EU studies with the EU around four analytical principles: (1) the principle of symmetry, (2) the principle of rejecting the internal/external division, (3) the principle of situatedness and (4) the principle of contextualism. A sociology of knowledge approach provides alternative explanations of the EU's development and of our scholarly attempts to make sense of it.

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Building Europe on a Weak Field: Law, Economics, and Scholarly Avatars in Transnational Politics

Cited by 103 publications

References 87 publications

Do economists make policies? On the political effects of economics

Do economists make policies? On the political effects of economics

Perspectives on Europeanization of National Judiciaries: Old and New Questions

A Sociology of Knowledge Approach to European Integration: Four Analytical Principles

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