Dr Amandine Crespy
Visiting Fellow
European Institute
Biography
Amandine Crespy was born in Lyon (France) and completed her studies in Lyon (Institut d’Etudes Politiques), Berlin (Freie Universität) and Bruges (College of Europe). She holds a PhD from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). She has been a Lecturer in Political Science and European Studies at the ULB since 2010 and also teaches at Royal Holloway, University of London since 2014. While conducting her doctoral and post-doctoral research, she was invited as a Visiting Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin, Science Po in Paris and Harvard University.
She has taken part including European research projects RECON (Reconstituting Democrady in Europe – FP6) and GR:EEN (Global Re-ordering: Evolution through European Networks – FP7). She is now actively involved in ENLIGHTEN (European Legitimacy in Governing through Hard Times: the role of European Networks), a Horizon 2020-funded project starting in 2015.
Research Interests
Her research interests relate to contention in European politics and socio-economic integration in the European Union. She has specifically focused on public services liberalisation and regulation and how they have triggered political contention in a multi-level perspective. She is now completing a monograph on Contentious politics and public services in the European Union. More generally, she conducts research social policy and EU integration and the fate of ‘Social Europe’. From a theoretical point of view, she has a special interest in the role of ideas, discourse and conflict in relation to European integration. This has led to work on Euro scepticism and resistances to EU integration, legitimation discourses over the EU, especially in the context of the Euro crisis and the new era of European austerity.
Her research interest in the near future deal with the dilemma faced by national governments and EU institutions alike between financial responsibility and political responsiveness. This focus will lie on budget politics and the provision of public services (healthcare, education, social housing, etc) in the context of austerity enforced under the new regime for EU macro-economic governance.
Selected Publications
Books and special issues
The Elusive Pursuit of Social Europe and the Eurocrisis, Palgrave MacMillan (forthcoming), with G. Menz (eds).
"Les avatars du néolibéralisme dans la fabrique des politiques européennes", special issue of Gouvernement et action publique, 2014/2, with Pauline Ravinet (eds).
Qui a peur de Bolkestein ? Conflit, résistances et démocratie dans l’Union européenne, Paris : Economica, 2012.
Journal articles
“How to not speak the F-Word: Federalism in French and German discourse in the Eurocrisis”, European Journal for Political Research (forthcoming), with Arthur Borriello.
“The rise and steep fall of Social Europe. How the Commission’s entrepreneurship (still) matters”, Journal of Common Market Studies (forthcoming), with Georg Menz.
“The clash of titans: France, Germany and the discursive double game of EMU reform”, Journal of European Public Policy, 21(8), 2014, 1085-1101, with Vivien Schmidt.
"The legitimacy of the EU and deliberative democracy. A reappraisal of conflict", Political Studies, 2014, 62 S1, 81-98.
“A dialogue of the deaf. Conflicting discourses over the EU and services liberalization in the WTO, the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 16(1), 2014, 168-187.
"Expliquer l’impuissance partisane dans le policy-making européen. Social-démocratie et régulation des services publics", Politique européenne, 38, 2012, 154-181.
"New Parliament, Old Cleavages? Political Conflict Lines on the EU Services Directive in the European Parliament after the Eastern Enlargement", Journal of Common Market Studies, 48(5), 2010, 1185-1208, with Katarzyna Gajewska.
"When ‘Bolkestein’ is trapped by the French anti-liberal discourse : A discursive-institutionalist account of preference formation in the realm of EU multi-level politics", Journal of European Public Policy, 17(8), 2010, 1253-1270.
"From Euroscepticism to Resistances to European integration: an Interdisciplinary Perspective", Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 2009,10(3), 377-393, with Nicolas Verschueren.
"Dissent over the European Constitutional Treaty within the French Socialist Party: between response to anti-globalization protest and intra-party tactics", French Politics, 2008/6, 23-44.