European integration as an elite process : the failure of a dream?

Author:Max Haller

Summary: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.

Print Book, English, 2007

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Publisher: Routledge, London, 2007

Physical Description:pages cm

ISBN:

9780415403900, 0415403901

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:124958896

Subjects:

Déficit démocratique

Elite

Elite (Social sciences) Attitudes

Elite (Social sciences) European Union countries Attitudes

European Union countries

European Union countries Social policy

Intégration économique

Intégration sociale Pays de l'Union européenne

Minorités Pays de l'Union européenne Conditions sociales

Minorities European Union countries Social conditions

Minorities Social conditions

Pays de l'Union européenne Politique sociale

Social integration

Social integration European Union countries

Contents:

1. Living in Two Different Worlds? The Increasing Split Between Elites and Citizens about European Integration 2. European Integration as an Elite Process: Theoretical Approach 3. The Political Elites: How Integration Has Opened Up a Wide Field of New Political Careers 4. The Economic Elites: Between Global Capitalism and European (Neo-) Corporatism 5. The Eurocracy: The Irresistible Growth of a New and Powerful Supranational Bureaucratic Elite 6. One Union or Many? Divergent Views of Integration in the Different EU Member States 7. The Dream of Europe: Intellectual Ideas of Integration and their “Realization” 8. The EU as a “Community of Law": Proposals for Strengthening its Social and Democratic Character.