Since its origins, the European Union (EU) has increasingly relied on prizes to highlight the values and principles channelling European integration. In the last two decades, such symbolic tools of governance have shifted away from the kind of distinctions granted by elites to elites and aiming to honour prominent figures offered as role models mainly in the field of identity, memory and cultural policies. In an increasingly market-oriented Europe, prizes are used as incentives and disciplining instruments to enhance self-compliance of economic and social actors with an ethos of competitiveness and innovation. They work as a magnifying glass of the evolution of the EU towards a government at distance through policy instruments. The focus is on four areas where prizes have multiplied since the 2000s: research and innovation, economic governance, territorial and environmental policies, and communication policies. The article draws on a qualitative analysis of a corpus of ninety-one prizes, institutional documentation, parliamentary debates and media controversies related to prizes.

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治理奖。欧盟如何使用象征性的区别来动员社会和培养竞争力

自成立以来，欧盟 (EU) 越来越依赖奖项来强调引导欧洲一体化的价值观和原则。在过去的二十年里，这种象征性的治理工具已经不再是精英授予精英的那种区别，而是旨在表彰主要在身份、记忆和文化政策领域作为榜样的杰出人物。在日益以市场为导向的欧洲，奖品被用作激励和约束手段，以增强具有竞争力和创新精神的经济和社会参与者的自我遵守。它们是欧盟通过政策工具向远程政府演变的放大镜。重点是自 2000 年代以来奖项成倍增加的四个领域：研究与创新、经济治理、领土和环境政策，以及交流政策。这篇文章借鉴了对 91 个奖项的语料库、机构文件、议会辩论和与奖项有关的媒体争论的定性分析。