{"id":35371,"date":"2018-10-30T11:37:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T15:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=35371"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:32:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:32:58","slug":"schmidt-gives-talks-at-ubc-simon-fraser-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2018\/10\/30\/schmidt-gives-talks-at-ubc-simon-fraser-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Schmidt Gives Talks at UBC, Simon Fraser University"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Vivien Schmidt<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>Professor of International Relations and Political Science<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University,\u00a0gave two recent talks in Vancouver on Europe’s crisis of legitimacy and the rhetoric of discontent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On October 18, 2018, Schmidt gave a talk at the Simon Fraser University Department of Political Science entitled\u00a0\u201cThe Rhetoric of Discontent:On the Transatlantic Rise of Populism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schmidt gave an October 19, 2018 talk at the University of British Columbia\u2019s Institute of European Studies as part of the European Transitions Speaker Series entitled \u201cEurope\u2019s Crisis of Legitimacy:\u00a0 Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the abstract of the talk below:<\/p>\n

Although \u2018Brexit\u2019 and the refugee crisis have grabbed today\u2019s headlines, the European Union\u2019s sovereign debt crisis continues to be of major concern. The Eurozone\u2019s comparatively poor economic performance and continued political divisiveness have combined with processes focused on \u2018governing by rules and ruling by numbers\u2019 to generate a crisis not just of economics and politics but also of democratic legitimacy. Professor Schmidt argues that the EU\u2019s (euro) crisis of legitimacy centers on problems related to (a lack of) policy effectiveness, political responsiveness, and procedural quality. But she also contends that in pursuit of legitimacy as much as in response to deteriorating economics and increasing political volatility, EU institutional actors \u2013 ECB, Council, Commission, and EP \u2013 incrementally reinterpreted the rules and recalibrated the numbers \u2018by stealth,\u2019 that is, without admitting it in their public discourse. To theorize about such processes of ideation innovation and discursive legitimation during the Eurozone crisis, Prof. Schmidt uses the neo-institutionalist framework of discursive institutionalism.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Schmidt<\/a>\u00a0is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at Boston University.\u00a0Her research focuses on European political economy, institutions, democracy, and political theory. In 2018, she was appointed as a Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor \u2014 France\u2019s highest honor. She has published a dozen books, over 200 scholarly journal articles or chapters in books, and numerous policy briefs and comments, most recently on the Eurozone crisis.\u00a0 Her current work focuses on democratic legitimacy in Europe, with a special focus on the challenges resulting from the Eurozone crisis, and on methodological theory, in particular on the importance of ideas and discourse in political analysis (discursive institutionalism).\u00a0 She is a 2018 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for a US-EU comparative study of the \u2018rhetoric of discontent.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prof. Vivien Schmidt gave talks entitled \u00a0\u201cThe Rhetoric of Discontent” and \u201cEurope\u2019s Crisis of Legitimacy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8414],"tags":[10745],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35371"}],"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\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35371"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35376,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35371\/revisions\/35376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}