{"id":20096,"date":"2015-11-25T13:28:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T18:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=20096"},"modified":"2021-02-04T09:38:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T14:38:01","slug":"video-schmidt-talks-eurozone-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2015\/11\/25\/video-schmidt-talks-eurozone-in-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Schmidt Talks Eurozone in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/11\/schmidt_eurozone_resized.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/11\/schmidt_eurozone_resized.png\" alt=\"schmidt_eurozone_resized\" width=\"545\" height=\"317\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20097\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/11\/schmidt_eurozone_resized.png 545w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/11\/schmidt_eurozone_resized-516x300.png 516w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/vivien-a-schmidt\/\">Vivien Schmidt<\/a>, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, spoke about the Eurozone Crisis at a recent event held at University College in Dublin, Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span>Understanding the Eurozone Crisis Seminar Series&#8221; (Autumn 2015) was co-hosted by UCD Dublin European Institute, UCD College of Social Sciences and Law, UCD College of Business and UCD Industrial Relations and Human Resources Group. Schmidt presented on the topic of &#8220;The Euro Crisis of Governance: Legitimacy at Risk?&#8221; Her talk took place on Nov. 16, and the video was published on Nov. 25.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ttPk3CQOZug\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/2015\/11\/30\/vivien-schmidt-presentation-on-the-euro-crisis-of-governance-at-dublin-european-institute\/\">event write-up<\/a> originally published on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\">Center for the Study of Europe,<\/a> of which Schmidt is the Director:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>Schmidt\u2019s UCD lecture draws on a report that she recently prepared for the European Commission. The EU\u2019s economic crisis has generated a crisis of democratic legitimacy, as deteriorating economics and increasingly volatile politics have combined with restrictive governance processes focused on \u2018governing by the rules and ruling by the numbers.\u2019 Using the systems related terms of democratic theory, this paper first analyzes this legitimacy crisis in terms of problems with the \u2018output\u2019 performance of EU policies, the EU\u2019s responsiveness to European citizens\u2019 political \u2018input,\u2019 and the quality of the EU\u2019s \u2018throughput\u2019 processes. It then considers how these play out for EU institutional actors\u2014including in turn the ECB, the Council, the Commission, and the EP. The paper\u2019s overall argument is that EU actors have sought to fix the economics and calm the politics by progressively reinterpreting the rules without admitting it in the discourse, and that such reinterpretation \u2018by stealth,\u2019 although perhaps beneficial for output legitimacy, risks generating further problems for input and throughput legitimacy.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/2015\/11\/30\/vivien-schmidt-presentation-on-the-euro-crisis-of-governance-at-dublin-european-institute\/\">the entire write-up here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Schmidt&#8217;s\u00a0<span>research focuses on European political economy, institutions, democracy, and political theory.\u00a0 Recent books include\u00a0<\/span><em>Resilient Liberalism in Europe\u2019s Political Economy\u00a0<\/em><span>(co-edited, 2013),\u00a0<\/span><em>Debating Political Identity and Legitimacy in the European Union<\/em><span>\u00a0(co-edited, 2011),\u00a0<\/span><em>Democracy in Europe<\/em><span>\u00a0(2006)\u2014named in 2015 by the European Parliament as one of the \u2018100 Books on Europe to Remember\u2019\u2014and\u00a0<\/span><em>The Futures of European Capitalism<\/em><span>\u00a0(2002). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/vivien-a-schmidt\/\">Learn more about her here.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Vivien Schmidt spoke about the Eurozone Crisis at a recent event held at University College in Dublin, Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8431,8434],"tags":[8802,8491,8694,8861,8363,8489,4076],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20098,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20096\/revisions\/20098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}