Schmidt Discusses Europe’s Crisis of Legitimacy On Podcast
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 – on a new episode of the Social Europe Podcast.
The podcast explores cutting-edge thinking on politics, economy and employment & labor with some of the most thought-provoking people around, including Nobel Prize winners and other internationally acclaimed experts. During her appearance, Schmidt discussed the level of trust in governing activities and authorities in the Eurozone, the different measures of governing legitimacy, and how she uses these measures to gauge European Union actors’ legitimacy following the Eurozone Crisis.
The full podcast can be listened to below.
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.