Social Change and Political Transformation

ISBN-13: 9780815348382 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 218 str.

Chris Rootes;Howard Davis

Opis

Social Change in Political Transformation is thorough examination of political transformation the book features contributors from western and eastern Europe, giving their views on how European society and institutions are changing. The themes of social change, new movements and the development of European institutions are developed within a broad framework, and are supposed by considerable empirical detail relating to the European Community and a disaggregated eastern Europe. Students of political sociology, politics and European studies will all find this a useful text providing theories and explanations, as well as summaries of recent research.

Spis treści

Contributions  Acknowledgements  Introduction  1. European Countries in a Post-National Era  2. The European Community: Regime-Building and Institutionalization of Criteria for Rationality  3. Harmonization and the Art of European Government  4. These on a Post-Military Europe: Conscription, Citizenship and Militarism After the Cold War  5. Changing Attitudes in the European Community  6. Support for New Social Movements in Five Western European Countries  7. Environmentalism in Europe: An East-West Comparison  8. Order, Crisis and Social Movements in the Transition from State Socialism  9. Intellectuals and Democratization in Hungary  10. State and Society in Poland  11. Some Thoughts on Trust, Collective Identity, and the Transition from State Socialism  Index

O autorze

Chris Rootes, Howard Davis