European Integration as an Elite Process: The Failure of a Dream?

ISBN-13: 9780415897389 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 432 str.

Max Haller

Opis

Max Haller's impressive book presents an analysis of the process of European integration which keeps the relation between elites and citizens at the forefront. It is shown on the basis of new empirical data that European integration has been led since the beginning by the elites.

Spis treści

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. 

O autorze

Max Haller is a leading sociological researcher on Europe and European integration. In addition to 30 articles in international journals on this topic, he has edited six volumes, including Class Structure in Europe (Armondk, NY/ London 1990), Toward a European Nation (Armonk, NY/ London 1994), and The Making of the European Union, (Berlin/ Heidelber/ New York 2001). He was a co-founder (together with D. Lane) of the European Sociological Association.