Restructuring territoriality : Europe and the United States compared / / edited by Christopher K. Ansell, Giuseppe Di Palma

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910813251003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, UK ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2004
• ISBN: 1-107-14667-4; 1-280-54093-1; 0-511-21522-3; 0-511-21701-3; 0-511-21164-3; 0-511-31565-1; 0-511-61707-0; 0-511-21341-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 300 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Altri autori (Persone): AnsellChristopher K. <1957->; Di PalmaGiuseppe
• Disciplina: 320.1
• Soggetti: Political geography; Sovereignty; State, The; Globalization - Political aspects; Europe Politics and government 1989-; United States Politics and government 2001-2009
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-296) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Restructuring authority and territoriality / Christopher K. Ansell -- Old and new peripheries in the processes of European territorial integration / Stefano Bartolini -- Center-periphery alignments and political contention in late-modern Europe / Sidney Tarrow -- Sovereignty and territoriality in the European Union: transforming the UK Institutional Order / James A. Caporaso and Joseph Jupille -- Social citizenship in the European Union: toward a spatial reconfiguration? / Maurizio Ferrera -- Islands of transnational governance / Alec Stone Sweet -- Regional integration and left parties in Europe and North America / ; Gary Marks and Ian Down -- The European Union in American perspective: the transformation of territorial sovereignty in Europe and the United States / Sergio Fabbrini -- Is the democratic deficit a deficiency? the case of immigration policy in the United States and the European Union / Bruce E. Cain -- Territory, representation, and the policy outcome: the United States and the European Union compared / Alberta M. Sbragia -- Territory, authority, and democracy / Christopher K. Ansell -- Postscript: what inefficient history and malleable practices say about nation-states and supranational democracy when territoriality is no longer exclusive / Giuseppe Di Palma.
• Sommario/riassunto: The bundling of political authority into mutually exclusive territorial boundaries - territoriality - is a fundamental principle of modern political organization. Indeed, it provides the foundation for other cherished institutions - national sovereignty, citizenship, the modern welfare state, and democracy. Are globalization, internationalization, and Europeanization conspiring to unbundle territoriality? If so, are sovereignty, citizenship, the welfare state, and democracy unravelling as well? Is a new post-national, non-territorial form of political organization, heralded by the European Union, being born? With a focus on Europe, this volume explores these issues from various substantive and theoretical perspectives. The authors find evidence of the diffusion of authority both within and beyond the state, producing novel institutional arrangements and new modes of governance. But the United States may provide more useful insights into the new dispensation than the idea of a post-national, non-territorial politics. Interest in contemporary challenges to democracy run throughout this volume.