Schmidt Receives Honorable Mention for EUSA Best Book Award
Vivien Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, has been awarded a Honorable Mention for the best book of 2021 by the European Union Studies Association (EUSA).
In an announcement to its membership, EUSA announced that The Responsive Union: National Elections and European Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2019) by Christina J. Schneider, Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego was awarded the 2021 EUSA Best Book prize. In the same announcement, Schmidt’s Europe’s Crisis of Legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers in the Eurozone (OUP 2020) was recognized with an “Honorable Mention.”
The awardees will be honored in person at EUSA’s Biennial Meeting in May 2022.
Vivien Schmidt is Professor of International Relations and Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and was the first Director of BU’s Center for the Study of Europe, housed at the Pardee School. Schmidt’s research focuses on European political economy, institutions, democracy, and political theory—in particular on the importance of ideas and discourse in political analysis. Read more about Schmidt on her faculty profile.