European Governance and Democracy

Power and Protest in the EU

Richard Balme, Didier Chabanet (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

286 Seiten

2008
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-0-7425-2934-2 (ISBN)

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Considering the future of European integration, this clear and compelling study explores the interplay between collective action and democracy in the European Union and its member states. Richard Balme and Didier Chabanet analyze the influence of supranational governance on democratization through a wealth of case studies on a broad range of civil society interests, including regional policy, unemployment and poverty, women's rights, migration policy, and environmental protection.

The authors trace the evolving relationship between citizens and European institutions over the past decades, especially as public support for deepening and widening integration has waned. This trend culminated in a deep institutional crisis precipitated by the rejection of the draft constitutional treaty in France and the Netherlands in 2005. At least two truisms were proven wrong during this tumultuous period: that European citizens have little interest in European integration and that citizens have little influence on EU politics. However, this power shift has left citizens with a deep distrust of integration and EU institutions with limited capacities to cope with issues the public considers priorities-primarily unemployment and social inequalities.

The book shows how Europe-wide interest groups formed and protesters were able to mobilize around key issues of integration. The authors convincingly argue that the growth of contentious social movements has also been nourished by the EU policy process itself, which leaves more room for interest groups and protest politics than for political parties and representative democracy. An essential primer on European democracy, this study will be invaluable for scholars and students in European politics and public policy, globalization and democracy, and comparative social movements.

Richard Balme is professor at Sciences Po, Paris, and at the School of Government, Peking University. Didier Chabanet is Fernand Braudel Senior Research Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He is also research fellow at the Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'Etat and associate research fellow at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Lettres et Sciences Humaines) in Lyon.

Introduction
Chapter 1: Approaching Collective Action
Chapter 2: Collective Action and Civil Society in Europe
Chapter 3: The Making of a Polity: Interests' Mobilization around European Institutions
Chapter 4: European Integration and Varieties of Capitalism: The Brussels Consensus
Chapter 5: The European Burden: Unemployment and Political Behavior
Chapter 6: Beyond State Building: Centers and Peripheries in the European Union
Chapter 7: Collective Action and New Rights
Chapter 8: Interests' Mobilization in the Constitutionalization of Europe
Chapter 9: The Regulation of Interest Groups in the European Union
Conclusion: European Democracy and Social Justice
Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.7.2008
Reihe/Serie	Governance in Europe Series
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 236 mm
Gewicht	549 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-7425-2934-7 / 0742529347
ISBN-13	978-0-7425-2934-2 / 9780742529342
Zustand	Neuware