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Exploring the creative and destructive ways individuals and groups make use of new digital and social media in democratic societies across the world, this book presents a much-needed critical theory of the public sphere as we enter the new digital age.

This book introduces a sociological perspective on European integration by looking at different accounts of Europeanization as society building.

Trenz introduces a sociological perspective on European integration by looking at different accounts of Europeanization as society building. He observes how Europeanization unfolds in ongoing practices and discourses through which social relations among the Europeans are redefined and re-embedded. The chapters describe how the project of European integration has been powerfully launched in postwar Europe as a normative venture that comprises polity and society building, how this project became ingrained in every-day life histories and experiences of the Europeans, how this project became...

Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Schmidt-Trenz ist Professor am Fachbereich VWL der Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften der Universität Hamburg sowie Professor für VWL an der Fakultät für Empirische Humanwissenschaft und Wirtschaftswissenschaft der Universität des Saarlandes.
Institutionen sind allgegenwärtig: Gesetze und Regeln, Verträge, Unternehmen, Verbände und Staat, multinationale Unternehmen und internationale Verträge bilden "governance structures", in die wir unsere vielfältigen Transaktionen einbetten. Welche "governance structure" für welche Transaktion ist die...

This multi-disciplinary book captures the evolving practices of European civil society that stretch across the local, national, European and global realm. It consolidates existing research and reviews its conceptual, normative and empirical-analytical foundations.

Over the past two decades, civil society has played a pivotal role in Europe, from the demise of Communist rule to the reunification of Europe, followed by the expansion of the single market to the reconstitution of democracy in the enlarged European Union.

European civil society has emerged as a social space between EU governance and the citizens of the member states, populated by non-state agents claiming to represent, speak for or participate on behalf of the most varied social constituencies in EU decision making. This book consolidates European civil society research...