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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Considering the future of European integration, this clear and compelling study explores the interplay between collective action and democracy in the European Union. Richard Balme and Didier Chabanet convincingly show that as support for broadening and deepening integration has waned, contentious and powerful social movements have flourished. The authors analyze the relationship among interest group politics, social movements, and public policy at the EU level though a wealth of case studies on regional policy, unemployment and poverty, women's rights, migration policy, and environmental protection. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionChapter 1: Approaching Collective ActionChapter 2: Collective Action and Civil Society in EuropeChapter 3: The Making of a Polity: Interests' Mobilization around European InstitutionsChapter 4: European Integration and Varieties of Capitalism: The Brussels ConsensusChapter 5: The European Burden: Unemployment and Political BehaviorChapter 6: Beyond State Building: Centers and Peripheries in the European UnionChapter 7: Collective Action and New RightsChapter 8: Interests' Mobilization in the Constitutionalization of EuropeChapter 9: The Regulation of Interest Groups in the European UnionConclusion: European Democracy and Social JusticeBibliography
