02911nam 2200565 a 450 991077781340332120230721031530.01-383-03528-81-281-14931-497866111493140-19-152680-01-4294-7058-5(CKB)1000000000473531(EBL)415283(OCoLC)437093507(SSID)ssj0000150349(PQKBManifestationID)11137466(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000150349(PQKBWorkID)10239449(PQKB)10508591(Au-PeEL)EBL415283(CaPaEBR)ebr10211820(CaONFJC)MIL114931(MiAaPQ)EBC415283(EXLCZ)99100000000047353120060918d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEurope 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. OlsenOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20071 online resource (340 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-921434-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-315) and index.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?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: whaEuropePolitics and governmentEuropean Union countriesPolitics and government341.242/2Olsen Johan P115992MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777813403321Europe in search of political order3728165UNINA