From Paris to Escap The European Anti-Poverty Programme 1972–81

James, Edward

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“…Social capital results from the traces left by interactions in the course of the implementation of the Action Programme. In that respect, the cooperation between the European Commission, national scientific experts, and the group of scientists charged with the evaluation of the whole program (the so‐called ESPOIR group) stands out (James 1981). Finally, the capital that officializes emerged from the new means of publication, particularly from the intermediary and the final report of the Action Programme (CEC 1980, 1981).…”

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Beyond Constructivism: The Political Sociology of an EU Policy Field

Bernhard

2011

International Political Sociology

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This article applies a political sociology of knowledge to an EU social policy field. Taking the case of poverty and social inclusion policy, it shows that European social policy has found a raison d’être alongside national social policies, feeding into EU member states’ national policies and producing comparative policy‐relevant knowledge based on a genuine set of resources. Going beyond constructivist approaches, this article contends that the establishment of these resources can be reconstructed productively as the establishment of a transnational field in Pierre Bourdieu’s sense of the term. In a process stretching over more than four decades, the EU’s rudimentary policy for tackling poverty in the 1970s has evolved into a semi‐autonomous field of social inclusion policy. This field encompasses monitoring capital, social capital, officializing capital, scientific capital, and informational capital, all of which EU‐level actors use in different ways to position themselves against other actors in this transnational field. Thus, a complex and dynamic configuration arises that consists of actors, institutions, and ideas. The article concludes that while there are many affinities between constructivism and political sociology, the latter can go further in analyzing and theorizing phenomena such as ideas and discourses.

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Beyond Constructivism: The Political Sociology of an EU Policy Field

Bernhard

2011

International Political Sociology

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“…Soziales Kapital bildet sich aus den Interaktionsspuren zwischen den an der Umsetzung des Aktionsprogramms Beteiligten heraus. Hier ist insbesondere die Zusammenarbeit zwischen der Europäischen Kommission, den nationalen Experten der Länderberichte, die für den Synthesebericht erstellt werden, sowie der mit der Evaluation des Programms beauftragten Forschergruppe ESPOIR zu nennen (James 1981 (CEC 1988b, S. 13). Im zweiten und dritten Aktionsprogramm zentralisiert sie den weitgehend unverbundenen Prozess des Experimentierens mit Pilotprojekten auf lokaler Ebene mit dem Ziel, einen Apparat der Sammlung, Verbreitung und Bewertung von Projektergebnissen zu installieren (CEC 1988a, S. 9).…”

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Inklusionspolitik als Beratung — Emergenz und Dynamik eines europäischen Politikfeldes

Bernhard

2011

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Community Action Programmes in the Early Eighties - What Future?

Mayo¹

1981

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The last ten years has seen a major shift in the kinds of demands made by tenants and action groups and other labour movement organisations. Many of the demands of campaigns in the early 1970s were directed at stopping state financed projects such as motorways and the clearance of older housing areas. In contrast current campaign demands are still defensive, but of a different kind because they are not trying to change or stop state spending but are aimed against the cuts and arguing for more spending. (Community Action No.50 Sept/Oct 1980)

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From Paris to Escap The European Anti-Poverty Programme 1972–81

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Beyond Constructivism: The Political Sociology of an EU Policy Field

Beyond Constructivism: The Political Sociology of an EU Policy Field

Inklusionspolitik als Beratung — Emergenz und Dynamik eines europäischen Politikfeldes

Community Action Programmes in the Early Eighties - What Future?

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