Europeanisation, stateness, and professions: What role do economic expertise and economic experts play in European political integration?

Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian

doi:10.1080/23254823.2017.1335222

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“…The first dimension of field-crossing social capital is linked to the direct accessability of expertise present in the global policy network and related governmental bodies. Professional expertise is used by governmental bodies to legitimize decisions and educational reforms as suggested by Schmidt-Wellenburg (2017). In our case, field-crossing social capital is associated with the opportunity to centralize the flow of expertise necessary to steer educational reforms.…”

Section: Social Network Theory: Advisor Network Across a Variety Of mentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Applied to our case, the OECD aims to be acknowledged as the single most important actor for education assessment and provider of educational evidence by national governments. To this end, the OECD relies on modes of professional consultation, provided by think tanks, consulting agencies, philanthropies and educational scientists in order to impact the agency of governments (Lingard 2013;Schmidt-Wellenburg 2017;Schinkel and Noordegraaf 2011). The OECD strengthens its ability to coordinate, to relate and translate different forms of habitus, symbolic capital and cultural capital by drawing on different experts and by tying the different forms of expertise together.…”

Section: Social Network Theory: Advisor Network Across a Variety Of mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Expertise is amassed in the respective organizations and helps to legitimize strategies of the actors to gain influence in the respective fields (Schinkel and Noordegraaf 2011;Schmidt-Wellenburg 2017). By doing so, actors may become dependent on each other, but are nevertheless able to maximize the accumulation rate of the different sorts of capital within their fields by specialization and division of labor; and the capability to draw on different forms of expertise and aid provided by collaborators.…”

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Governing the School by Transnational Networks. The OECD PISA Policy Advisor Network in the Global Field of Power.

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The OECD is one of the key players in global education policy advice, informing education governance reforms around the globe with the PISA test. At the same time, it is part of the edu-business network comprised of companies, philanthropies, consulting agencies and think tanks profiting from educational governance reforms and large-scale testing. In order to exert influence on national educational reforms, different types of complementary expertise and collaborations between different types of actors must be coordinated. To analyze this form of collaboration between different actors and to map the global edu-business and global policy advisor networks having emerged around the OECD's PISA-tests, we make use of a combination of Habitus-Field Theory and Social Network Theory. We introduce the concepts of boundary-spanning actors and fieldtranscending social capital and apply our concepts to a two-level network analysis to investigate the embeddedness of the OECD in different social fields and the global field of power. The first layer is based on official collaborations among organizational actors situated in different sectors of the field of power. The second layer comprises of individual collaborations such as scientific cooperation, board interlocks and multiple affiliations. Furthermore, we look at network closure and density to investigate the exclusion of competing actors from taking part in the global edu-business. Our findings indicate that the OECD draws on experts and actors located in different fields to exert influence on national educational reforms. Finally, the global network of policy advisors is able to coordinate the different forms of expertise by installing a system of patronage, consisting of a small number of key players and large numbers of organizations and individuals that are needed to set education reforms in motion but are excluded from the core of the collaboration network.

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Section: Social Network Theory: Advisor Network Across a Variety Of mentioning

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“…In a recent study, Georgakakis and Lebaron () maintain that the crisis reinforced that part of Eurocracy which is in charge of economic governance (see also Schmidt‐Wellenburg, ). Other actors related to economic governance also gained influence: credit‐rating agencies, the IMF, the internationalized world of academics, and the financial elites.…”

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EU economic governance and austerity: Exploring recent perspectives

Souliotis

Afouxenidis

2018

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This paper presents some of the main theoretical approaches which examine changes in the EU economic governance system during the current crisis. We review standard approaches of EU studies (neo-functionalism, liberal inter-governmentalism, and historical institutionalism), Marxist-regulationist political economists, and Bourdieusian sociologists. The paper illustrates how scholars utilize given intellectual tools to understand ongoing trends of political and institutional change.We suggest that Bourdieusian sociologists may be in a relatively better position to interpret governance reforms and this is briefly illustrated by looking at some empirical observations from researching the effect of EU economic governance reform on the management of public assets in Greece.

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“…das Smets-Wouters-Modell, dass zum ersten Mal gesamteuropäische Diagnosen und Prognosen ermöglicht (Mudge & Vauchez, 2018). In der Krise erfolgt dann eine erneute Ausweitung der Aufgaben und ein Ausbau der ökonomischen Kapazitäten europäischer Institutionen, die der Regierung einer europäischen Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft dienen, staatsbürokratische Züge aufweisen und eng mit ökonomischem Wissen und der Profession und Disziplin der Volkswirtschaftslehre verbunden sind (Schmidt-Wellenburg, 2017).…”

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Europa und seine Krisen als umkämpfte Objekte volkswirtschaftlicher Deutungen

Schmidt-Wellenburg¹

2018

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The profession of economics is central to European governing, governance and government. Economists produce perceptions of economy, politics and society, without which it would be hard to imagine, let alone govern Europe. The article focuses on one specific instance of such knowledge: German-speaking economists' crisis perceptions 2009-2015. In a first step, the diversity of economists' crisis statements is analysed using a multiple correspondence analysis (MCA). Six discursive currents can be identified: three ordoliberal, one socio-liberal and one Europhile Keynesian. Each reaches a unique crisis perception by combining problems detected, solutions proposed and values adhered to. In a second step, the article argues that each of these currents is structured by their proponents' positions in the academic field of German-speaking economists. This is shown using a second MCA to construct the field and to locate the six discursive currents in it. The dominance of ordo-liberalism and especially a European ordo-liberal position can be traced back to, first, its speakers' field-positions and, second, their chance of forging a discursive alliance with socio-liberal positions. Hence, the article argues that the omnipresent triad of austerity, competitiveness and European governance, that we so often encounter, is a socio-historically specific discourse and field effect.

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Europeanisation, stateness, and professions: What role do economic expertise and economic experts play in European political integration?

Cited by 36 publications

References 45 publications

Governing the School by Transnational Networks. The OECD PISA Policy Advisor Network in the Global Field of Power.

Governing the School by Transnational Networks. The OECD PISA Policy Advisor Network in the Global Field of Power.

EU economic governance and austerity: Exploring recent perspectives

Europa und seine Krisen als umkämpfte Objekte volkswirtschaftlicher Deutungen

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