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The Europe of elites : a study into the Europeanness of Europe's political and economic elites / ed. by Heinrich Best ...

Best, Heinrich, 1949- [Hrsg.]

Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2012

XX, 293 S. : graph. Darst.

Englisch

European Integration as an Elite Project: An Introduction / H. Best, G. Lengyel, and L. Verzichelli

Europe a la Carte? European Citizenship and its Dimensions from the Perspective of National Elites / M. Cotta and F. Russo

Ready to Run Europe? Perspectives of a Supranational Career Among EU National Elites / N. Hube and L. Verzichelli

National Elites' Preferences on the Europeanization of Policy-Making / J. Real-Dato, B. Goncz and G. Lengyel

The Other Side of European Identity: Elite Perceptions of Threats to a Cohesive Europe / I. Matonyte and V. Morkevicius

Elites' Views on European Institutions: National Experiences Sifted Through Ideological Orientations / D. Gaxie and N. Hube

Patterns of Regional Diversity in Political Elite Attitudes / M. Lazic, M. Jerez-Mir, V. Vuletic and R. Vazquez-Garcia

The Elites-Masses Gap in European Integration / W.C. Muller, M. Jenny and A. Ecker

Party Elites and the Domestic Discourse on the EU, N. ContiElite Foundations of European Integration: A Causal Analysis / H. Best

Elites of Europe and the Europe of Elites: A Conclusion / H. Best.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Druckausg.: The Europe of elites

Druckausg.: The Europe of elites

978-0-19-960231-5 ((hbk.)); 0-19-960231-X ((hbk.))

978-0-19-960231-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

9780199602315

445430885

OCoLC: 910976577      ; OCoLC: 1261319967     

OCoLC: 801796879 (aus SWB)      ; OCoLC: 910976577 (aus SWB)     

Online-Ausg.

Oxford scholarship online

Elektronische Ressource: H; OUP (OPAC-Hinweis:Oxford scholarship online) (Lizenzangabe: Kostenfrei zugänglich ohne Registrierung)

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang beim Produzenten (Lizenzangabe: Kostenfrei zugänglich ohne Registrierung)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199602315.001.0001

MS 1480      Ähnliche Literatur

HM1263

305.52094

Basisklassifikation: 89.52 (Politische Psychologie; Politische Soziologie) ; 89.73 (Europapolitik; Europäische Union) ; 15.38 (Europäische Geschichte nach 1945)

*Europa ; Elite ; Europäische Integration      Zum Register

*Europa ; Elite ; Europäische Integration      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Political culture -- European Union countries ; Legislators -- European Union countries ; European federation ; Businesspeople -- Europe ; Social classes -- European Union countries ; Elite (Social sciences) -- Europe -- Attitudes ; Europe -- Economic policy ; Elite (Social sciences) -- European Union countries ; Europe -- Politics and government ; Europe -- Politics and government -- 1989-

Elite (Social sciences) / Europe / Attitudes ; Europe / Economic integration ; Europe / Economic conditions / 1945- ; Europe / Politics and government / 1989- ; Europäische Union ; Wirtschaftliche Elite ; Politische Elite ; Identität ; Aufsatzsammlung

It has been widely acknowledged that the process of European integration and unification was started and is still pursued as an elite project, designed to put an end to debilitating conflicts and rivalries by consolidating a common power base and by pooling Europe’s economic resources. Nevertheless elites have remained the known unknowns of the European integration process. The present volume is designed to change this. Based on surveys of political and economic elites in 18 European countries, it is a comprehensive study of the visions, fears, cognitions, and values of members of national parliaments and top business leaders underlying their attitudes towards European integration. It also investigates political and economic elites’ embeddedness in transnational networks and their ability to communicate in multicultural settings. Our book strongly supports the view of an elitist character of the process of European integration on the one hand, while challenging the idea that European national elites have merged or are even merging into a coherent Eurelite on the other. As the 11 chapters of this book show, the process of European integration is much more colourful and even contradictory than concepts of a straightforward normative and structural integration suggest. In particular this process is deeply rooted in and conditional on the social and political settings in national contexts. The empirical basis for this book is provided by the data of the international IntUne project, which has for the first time created a comprehensive database combining coordinated surveys of Europe-related attitudes at the elite and general population level.