Standardizing Europe: Standards as a Mode of Governance

摘要: This chapter centers on the ways in which standards and standardization became key to set motion new form of soft governance Europe. The dislocation governing education from EU Bologna Process prompted a shift design order-based incentive-based ensuring that process did not directly compromise sovereignty nation states. used extensive processes as main technology govern performance. Since production standardizing now forms core higher governance, it proves necessary theorize order further analyze their character effect development As part this develops performative notion emphasizing historical embedded social practices. argues do come into existence until they are through practices others negotiate contest them meaning constant flux, constantly migrating transforming (both themselves seek govern).