Schmidt Discusses Her New Book During SASE Conference
Vivien Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, discussed her latest book – Europe’s Crisis of Legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers in the Eurozone – during an online panel at the Society of the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) annual meeting on July 18, 2020. The SASE meeting was originally scheduled to take place in Amsterdam; however, the program went entirely virtual due to the global coronavirus pandemic.
The panel was one of the meeting’s featured “Author Meets Critics” sessions in which a group of professors discuss the latest scholarly book releases. Panelists from the Copenhagen Business School, the University of Amsterdam, the College of Europe, and the University of California, Riverside explored the ideas presented in Schmidt’s book, such as the governance of the Eurozone crisis and its impact on democratic legitimacy.
Vivien Schmidt is Professor of International Relations and Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and was the first Director of BU’s Center for the Study of Europe, housed at the Pardee School. Schmidt’s research focuses on European political economy, institutions, democracy, and political theory—in particular on the importance of ideas and discourse in political analysis. Read more about her here.