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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818384703321

Autore

Olsen Johan P

Titolo

Europe in search of political order [[electronic resource] ] : an institutional perspective on unity/diversity, citizens/their helpers, democratic design/historical drift and the co-existence of orders / / Johan P. Olsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-383-03528-8

1-281-14931-4

9786611149314

0-19-152680-0

1-4294-7058-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Disciplina

341.242/2

Soggetti

Europe Politics and government

European Union countries Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-315) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The possibility of political order -- The legacy : nationalization of political life -- 'Europeanization' : a fashionable and contested term -- A prelude to an institutional account -- What role for Euro-citizens? -- '... to serve the citizens of Europe' -- Institutions of governance : can democracies choose them? -- Reformers as pawns, engineers and gardeners -- Coping with conflict at constitutional moments -- The Europeanization of the territorial state? -- Towards a European administrative space?

Sommario/riassunto

One of the world's most influential Political Scientists provides an innovative perspective on institutional change and reform in the EU. - ;This book deals with ongoing processes of European cooperation and integration, processes that may have a potential to change the political organization of Europe. Based on ideas from 'the new institutionalism' the book offers a systematic perspective on institutional change and in particular the role of institutions in relation to four central and durable issues in the study of political life. These are: (1) the mediation



between unity and diversity: wha