The Europe Of Elites
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Author | : Heinrich Best |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2012-03-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 019960231X |
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The Europe of Elites is the first comprehensive study of how European political and economic leaders think and feel about Europe and about what course future European integration should take.
Author | : Nicolò Conti |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2018-06-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1351064819 |
Download National Political Elites, European Integration and the Eurozone Crisis Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The global financial, economic and sovereign debt crisis since 2008 has led to increases in political disaffection among citizens, a loss of legitimacy of political institutions, the discredit of mainstream parties and the rise of extremist or anti-system political alternatives. This comparative volume sheds greater light on this critical juncture in the recent history of the European Union (EU) by focusing on the evolution of attitudes of national political elites. It examines whether the crisis has affected the legitimacy of the EU integration project as perceived by national political elites and, consequently, if the elite consensus that constituted one of the most solid fundamentals supporting that project has been eroded. Analysing these changes across the different dimensions in which support for the EU is organized and its relationship with the evolution of support towards European integration among citizens in member states, the book addresses a basic question: How have these events affected the perceptions of the EU of national political elites? Ultimately, it sheds light on the evolution of the relationship between the perception of the EU and the national contexts, as well as the likely evolution of the project of European integration in the near future. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political elites, EU politics, European integration, political parties, and more broadly to comparative politics, European studies and sociology.
Author | : Dina Gusejnova |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2016-06-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107120624 |
Download European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-1957 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Explores European civilisation as a concept of twentieth-century political practice and the project of a transnational network of European elites. This title is available as Open Access.
Author | : Max Haller |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 2008-05-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113413990X |
Download European Integration as an Elite Process Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Max Haller's impressive book presents an analysis of the process of European integration which keeps the relation between élites and citizens at the forefront. A timely and original read, this book will be a useful addition to the library of any political sociologist, political scientist or scholar of European integration.
Author | : Christophe Guilluy |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2019-01-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300240821 |
Download Twilight of the Elites Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A passionate account of how the gulf between France’s metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apart Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an “American society”—one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy’s winners and losers in today’s France has replaced the old left-right split, leaving many on “the periphery.” As Guilluy shows, there is no unified French economy, and those cut off from the country’s new economic citadels suffer disproportionately on both economic and social fronts. In Guilluy’s analysis, the lip service paid to the idea of an “open society” in France is a smoke screen meant to hide the emergence of a closed society, walled off for the benefit of the upper classes. The ruling classes in France are reaching a dangerous stage, he argues; without the stability of a growing economy, the hope for those excluded from growth is extinguished, undermining the legitimacy of a multicultural nation.
Author | : Niilo Kauppi |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0415665248 |
Download Transnational Power Elites Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book argues that European Union institutional mechanics and the EU as a political unit cannot be properly understood without taking into account the elites that make the policy decisions. Spurred by globalisation, technological and economic development has provided the backbone for social and political transformations that have changed the social structures that unite and differentiate individuals and groups in Europe and their interface with extra-European actors. These developments are not only exemplified by the rise of the EU, but also by the rise of a set of transnational European power elites evolving in and around the European construction. This book maps out these EU and international interdependencies and provides a comprehensive picture of the European transnational power elites. Moving away from the majority of literature on European integration dominated by economics, law, IR and political science, the volume is written from a sociological perspective that takes into account the individuals that make the policy decisions, the formal and informal groups in which s/he is included, as well as the social conventions that regulate political and administrative activities in the EU. This book will be of much interest to students of EU studies, sociology, critical security studies, and IR in general.
Author | : Nicolò Conti |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2018-06-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1351064800 |
Download National Political Elites, European Integration and the Eurozone Crisis Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The global financial, economic and sovereign debt crisis since 2008 has led to increases in political disaffection among citizens, a loss of legitimacy of political institutions, the discredit of mainstream parties and the rise of extremist or anti-system political alternatives. This comparative volume sheds greater light on this critical juncture in the recent history of the European Union (EU) by focusing on the evolution of attitudes of national political elites. It examines whether the crisis has affected the legitimacy of the EU integration project as perceived by national political elites and, consequently, if the elite consensus that constituted one of the most solid fundamentals supporting that project has been eroded. Analysing these changes across the different dimensions in which support for the EU is organized and its relationship with the evolution of support towards European integration among citizens in member states, the book addresses a basic question: How have these events affected the perceptions of the EU of national political elites? Ultimately, it sheds light on the evolution of the relationship between the perception of the EU and the national contexts, as well as the likely evolution of the project of European integration in the near future. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political elites, EU politics, European integration, political parties, and more broadly to comparative politics, European studies and sociology.
Author | : Elena Semenova |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2013-12-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1317935322 |
Download Parliamentary Elites in Central and Eastern Europe Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Legislators are entrusted with key parliamentary functions and are important figures in the decision-making process. Their behaviour as political elites is as much responsible for the failures and successes of the new democracies as their institutional designs and constitutional reforms. This book provides a comparative examination of representative elites and their role in democratic development in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). It argues that as the drivers of the transformation process in CEE, individual and collective parliamentary actors matter. The authors provide an in-depth analysis of representatives from eleven national parliaments and explore country-specific features of recruitment and representation. They draw on an integrated dataset of parliamentary elites for individual, party family, and parliamentary variables over the 20 years following the collapse of Communism and develop a common framework for the analysis of variations in democratisation and political professionalisation between parliaments and political parties/party families across CEE. This unique volume will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative politics, elite research, post-communist politics, democratisation, legislative studies, and parliamentary representation.
Author | : Stefan Szücs |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2007-08-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3531901109 |
Download Local Elites, Political Capital and Democratic Development Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book helps to understand in which ways local governing elites are important for the success or failure of national democratic development. Although we know a great deal about the general importance of civil society and social capital for the development of sustainable democracy, we still know little about what specific local governing qualities or political capital that interact with democratic development. The collected data covers time series of surveys from between 15 to 30 political and administrative leaders in over a hundred middle-sized European and Eurasian cities. The study takes us across the 1980s and 1990s, going from cities in Sweden and the Netherlands - through the Baltic cities - to the cities of Belarus and Russia. The findings show the importance of local political capital based on commitments to core democratic values, informal governance networks, and the significance of initially connecting the community to global, non-economic relationships.
Author | : John Higley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780521424226 |
Download Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A distinguished group of scholars examine recent transitions to democracy and the prospects for democratic stability in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Portugal, Spain and Uruguay. They also assess the role of elites in the longer-established democratic regimes in Columbia, Costa Rica, Italy, Mexico and Venezuela. The authors conclude that in independent states with long records of political instability and authoritarian rule, democratic consolidation requires the achievement of elite 'consensual unity' - that is, agreement among all politically important elites on the worth of existing democratic institutions and respect for democratic rules-of-the-game, coupled with increased 'structural integration' among those elites. Two processes by which consensual unity can be established are explored - elite settlement, the negotiating of compromises on basic disagreements, and elite convergence, a more subtle series of tactical decisions by rival elites which have cumulative effect, over perhaps a generation.