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Notwithstanding its many successes since 1945, the project of European integration currently faces major difficulties, from financial crises and mass immigration to the departure of the UK from the European Union. At the same time, these challenges have spurred civil society organizations within and across Europe, revealing a shared public sphere in which citizens can mobilize around refugee rights, opposition to austerity policies, and other issues. Europeanization in Sweden assembles new empirical research on how these processes have played out in one of the continent's wealthiest nations, providing insights into whether, and how, the "Swedish model" can guide European integration.
List of contents
List of Tables
Preface Carlo Ruzza List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Europeanization, Civil Society, and the Swedish Welfare State
Anna Meeuwisse and Roberto Scaramuzzino SECTION I Chapter 1. Europeanization of and by Civil Society: Toward an Analytical Framework
Kerstin Jacobsson and Håkan Johansson Chapter 2. The Dual Role of European Union Civil Society Organizations: Between European Union Institutions and Domestic Civil Societies
Håkan Johansson and Sara Kalm SECTION II Chapter 3. Europeanization of Swedish Civil Society: Motives, Activities, and Perceived Consequences
Roberto Scaramuzzino and Magnus Wennerhag Chapter 4. Factors Explaining Swedish Civil Society Organizations' Europeanization
Roberto Scaramuzzino and Magnus Wennerhag Chapter 5. Access to the European Union and the Role of Domestic Embeddedness
Elsa Hedling and Anna Meeuwisse SECTION III Chapter 6. Europeanization through Funding
Matteo Di Placido and Roberto Scaramuzzino Chapter 7. From Popular Movements to Social Businesses: Social Entrepreneurship as Discursive Europeanization
Ulrika Levander Chapter 8. Varying Degrees of Europeanization in Swedish Women's Organizations
Ylva Stubbergaard Chapter 9. Questioning the Swedish Model or Exporting It? Identity Europeanization in the Prostitution Policy Field
Gabriella Scaramuzzino and Roberto Scaramuzzino Chapter 10. Promoting Consumer Rights in Sweden by Lobbying and Awareness-Raising Abroad
Anna Meeuwisse and Andreas Vilhelmsson Chapter 11. The Crisis of the European Union: Opportunity or Graveyard for a European Civil Society?
Lars Trägårdh SECTION IV Concluding Remarks Anna Meeuwisse and Roberto Scaramuzzino Appendix A: The Survey Study
Appendix B: Civil Society Organizations Types
Appendix C: Survey Question Wordings and Response Alternatives
Index
About the author
Anna Meeuwisse is professor of social work at Lund University, Sweden. One of her research areas concerns the changing roles of civil society organizations in the welfare state. She has been engaged in several research projects regarding civil society, advocacy, and transnational social movements in the health- and welfare area.
Roberto Scaramuzzino is Associate Professor at Lund University, Sweden. His research interests include changes in the welfare and integration systems and the role of civil society organizations in different countries. He has been engaged in comparative studies of mobilization in the migration and prostitution policy fields in Sweden, and Italy, and at the EU-level. He is currently working in a research program on civil society elites in Europe.
Summary
Notwithstanding its many successes since 1945, the project of European integration currently faces major difficulties, from financial crises and mass immigration to the departure of the UK from the European Union. At the same time, these challenges have spurred civil society organizations within and across Europe, revealing a shared public sphere in which citizens can mobilize around refugee rights, opposition to austerity policies, and other issues. Europeanization in Sweden assembles new empirical research on how these processes have played out in one of the continent’s wealthiest nations, providing insights into whether, and how, the “Swedish model” can guide European integration.
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“The close professional and working connections the team members enjoy is very obvious from the outset, thus resulting in a certain unity of substance and coherence of style not always found in edited volumes of this kind.” • Journal of the International Society for Third-Sector Research
“Europeanization in Sweden is a solid piece of work that is a worthy contribution to the field. This book is essential for anyone studying civil society in the EU or Sweden.” • Jean L. Cohen, Columbia University
“This volume offers significant findings on Swedish civil society in the European context, and makes thus a relevant contribution to our understanding of the role of civil society in the EU more broadly.” • Eva G. Heidbreder, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
