Europe’s Crisis of Legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers in the Eurozone
Understanding the New Europe Series In honor of Patrick McCarthy 1941-2007, Professor of European Studies, Bologna Center
Vivien A. Schmidt
Boston University, U.S.
VIVIEN A. SCHMIDT Vivien A. Schmidt is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Professor of International Relations in the Pardee School of Global Studies, and Professor of Political Science at Boston University, where she is also founding director of the university's Center for the Study of Europe.
She received her MA and PhD from the University of Chicago, her BA from Bryn Mawr College, and attended Sciences Po, Paris.
Professor Schmidt has published twelve books and over 200 articles and book chapters covering European political economy, institutions and democracy, as well neo-institutional theory (discursive institutionalism). Recent books include
Resilient Liberalism in Europe's Political Economy (Cambridge, co-edited, 2013),
Democracy in Europe (Oxford, 2006)—named in 2015 by the European Parliament as one of the ‘100 Books on Europe to Remember'—and
The Futures of European Capitalism (Oxford, 2002).
Recent honors and awards include an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Brussels, the Belgian Franqui Interuniversity Chair for foreign scholars, Fulbright fellowships to the EU and France, a research fellowship from the European Commission (DG ECFIN), and co-investigator on a multi-year EU HORIZON 2020 Grant.
Prof. Schmidt is Visiting Research Scholar at the Free University of Berlin and Visiting Professor at LUISS University in Rome, the Free University of Brussels, and the Copenhagen Business School. She has also been a visiting professor or scholar at Sciences Po in Paris, the European University Institute, Oxford University, and Cambridge University, among others.
Prof. Schmidt was formerly head of the European Union Studies Association (EUSA). She currently sits on the advisory boards of the Wissenschaft Zentrum Berlin, the Vienna Institute for Peace, and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (Brussels), and is co-chair of the European Union Studies group at Harvard's Center for European Studies. Her forthcoming book is entitled:
Europe's Crisis of Legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers in the Eurozone.
