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Author | : Sara Binzer Hobolt |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Direct democracy has become an increasingly common feature of European politics with important implications for policy making in the European Union. The no-votes in referendums in France and the Netherlands put an end to the Constitutional Treaty, and the Irish electorate has caused another political crisis in Europe by rejecting the Lisbon Treaty. Europe in Question explains how voters decide in referendums on European integration. It presents a comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding voting behaviour in referendums and a thorough comparative analysis of EU referendums from 1972 to 2008. To examine why people vote the way they do, the role of political elites and the impact of the campaign dynamics, this books relies on a variety of sources including survey data, content analysis of media coverage, experimental studies, and elite interviews. The book illustrates the importance of campaign dynamics and elite endorsements in shaping public opinion, electoral mobilization and vote choices. Referendums are often criticized for presenting citizens with choices that are too complex and thereby generating outcomes that have little or no connection with the ballot proposal. Importantly this book shows that voters are smarter than they are often given credit for. They may not be fully informed about European politics, but they do consider the issues at stake before they go to the ballot box and they make use of the information provided by parties and the campaign environment. Direct democracy may not always produce the outcomes that are desired by politicians. But voters are far more competent than commonly perceived.
Author | : Peter Gowan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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The Question of Europe comprises essays by some of the leading authorities and commentators on Europe, addressing issues such as EU expansion, Maastricht convergence criteria, democratic accountability, and issues of federalism.
Author | : Theodore Stanton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mikuláš Teich |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1993-05-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521367134 |
Download The National Question in Europe in Historical Context Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The historical impact of national movements in Europe has been dramatic and continues to be an issue of major importance. Leading historians authoritatively discuss European nationalism in its historical context.
Author | : Peter O'Brien |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2016-02-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1439912777 |
Download The Muslim Question in Europe Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In this book, the author argues that the vehement controversies surrounding European Muslims are better understood as persistent, unresolved intra-European political tensions rather than as a clash between "Islam and the West." This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.
Author | : Mark Hewitson |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857457276 |
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The period between 1917 and 1957, starting with the birth of the USSR and the American intervention in the First World War and ending with the Treaty of Rome, is of the utmost importance for contextualizing and understanding the intellectual origins of the European Community. During this time of 'crisis,' many contemporaries, especially intellectuals, felt they faced a momentous decision which could bring about a radically different future. The understanding of what Europe was and what it should be was questioned in a profound way, forcing Europeans to react. The idea of a specifically European unity finally became, at least for some, a feasible project, not only to avoid another war but to avoid the destruction of the idea of European unity. This volume reassesses the relationship between ideas of Europe and the European project and reconsiders the impact of long and short-term political transformations on assumptions about the continent's scope, nature, role and significance.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2020-11-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004442243 |
Download The First World War and the Nationality Question in Europe Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The contributions in this volume, written by historians, political scientists and linguists, shed new light on the political development of the nationality question in Europe during the First World War and its aftermath, covering theoretical developments and debates, social mobilization and cultural perspectives.
Author | : Craig Parsons |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2018-07-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1501732080 |
Download A Certain Idea of Europe Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The quasi-federal European Union stands out as the major exception in the thinly institutionalized world of international politics. Something has led Europeans—and only Europeans—beyond the nation-state to a fundamentally new political architecture. Craig Parsons argues in A Certain Idea of Europe that this "something" was a particular set of ideas generated in Western Europe after the Second World War. In Parsons's view, today's European Union reflects the ideological (and perhaps visionary) project of an elite minority. His book traces the progressive victory of this project in France, where the battle over European institutions erupted most divisively. Drawing on archival research and extensive interviews with French policymakers, the author carefully traces a fifty-year conflict between radically different European plans. Only through aggressive leadership did the advocates of a supranational "community" Europe succeed at building the EU and binding their opponents within it. Parsons puts the causal impact of ideas, and their binding effects through institutions, at the center of his book. In so doing he presents a strong logic of "social construction"—a sharp departure from other accounts of EU history that downplay the role of ideas and ideology.
Author | : Etienne Penissat |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2020-05-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1788736303 |
Download Social Class in Europe Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Mapping the class divisions that run throughout Europe Over the last ten years - especially with the 'no' votes in the French and Dutch referendums in 2010, and the victory for Brexit in 2016 - the issue of Europe has been placed at the centre of major political conflicts. Each of these crises has revealed profound splits in society, which are represented in terms of an opposition between those countries on the losing and those on the winning sides of globalisation. Inequalities beyond those between nations are critically absent from the debate. Based on major European statistical surveys, the new research in this work presents a map of social classes inspired by Pierre Bourdieu's sociology. It reveals the common features of the working class, the intermediate class and the privileged class in Europe. National features combine with social inequalities, through an account of the social distance between specific groups in nations in the North and in the countries of the South and East of Europe. The book ends with a reflection on the conditions that would be required for the emergence of a Europe-wide social movement.
Author | : Daron Acemoglu |
Publisher | : La fabrica |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9788416248421 |
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This volume is now the eighth in the annual series sponsored by BBVA as part of its OpenMind initiative, which is devoted to disseminating knowledge on key issues of our time. The Search for Europe analyses the present and future of the old continent and its integration project, surely the most ambitious political and economic integration project ever attempted in history, a benchmark for similar processes in other regions. The book is divided into three main sections: "The economic foundations of the European project", "Europe and its nations: Politics, society and culture", and "The unresolved Limits of Europe and the new global powers". It features pieces written by international experts such as Javier Solana, Barry Eichengreen, Philip Cooke, Bichara Khader, Vivien Ann Schmidt, John Peet and Thomas Christiansen, among others.