Reconfiguring European States in Crisis

- Features contributions from leading figures in the field - Provides a contemporary focus on Europe and examines the impact of current crises Reconfiguring European States in Crisis offers a ground-breaking analysis by some of Europe's leading political scientists, examining how the European national state and the European Union state have dealt with two sorts of changes in the last two decades. Firstly, the volume analyses the growth of performance measurement in government, the rise of new sorts of policy delivery agencies, the devolution of power to regions and cities, and the spread of neoliberal ideas in economic policy. The volume demonstrates how the rise of non-state controlled organizations and norms combine with Europeanization to reconfigure European states. Secondly, the volume focuses on how the current crises in fiscal policy, Brexit, security and terrorism, and migration through a borderless European Union have had dramatic effects on European states and will continue to do so.

1: A Reconfigured State: European Policy States in a Globalizing World, Patrick Le Galès and Desmond King Part 1. Changing Scales of European States 2: Nation-State to Member State: Trajectories of State Transformation and Re-Composition in Europe, Christopher Bickerton 3: The Rise of Non-State Authority and the Transformation of the State, Philipp Genschel and Bernhard Zangl 4: From the Nation State to the Global Polity, Sabino Cassese 5: Unbundling Sovereign Rights through Incomplete Contracting: Empowering European Transnational Networks beyond the State, Hendrik Spruyt 6: The Territorial State, Michael Keating Part 2. Capitalism Against the State? 7: A New Regime: The Consolidation State, Wolfgang Streeck 8: European Integration and the Evolution of Economic State Capacities in Southern and Eastern Europe, Laszlo Bruszt and Visnja Vukov 9: The Reshaping of Economic Markets and the State, Mark Thatcher 10: State Capacity in Financial Times, Cornelia Woll 11: Financial Integration and the National State, Erik Jones and Gregory W. Fuller 12: The Limitations of the Limited State: Neoliberal Theory Meets the Real World, Colin Crouch Part 3. Rationalization and Knowledge 13: The Neo-Managerial Turn of Bureaucratic States, Philippe Bezes 14: Tracking the State in a Liberal Democracy, Niamh Hardiman 15: Governing Futures: States and the Management of Expectations, Jenny Andersson 16: Measuring and Transforming the State: Finance-inspired Debt Metrics and the Fragile Economic and Social Order, Benjamin Lemoine 17: The Reconfiguration of the Welfare State in Europe: Paying its Way in an Age of Austerity, Bruno Palier and Colin Hay Part 4. Security and Democracy 18: Transformation of State's Use of Force in Europe, Fabien Jobard 19: Defence Policy and the European State: Insights from American Experience, Anand Menon 20: States of Crisis, Olivier Borraz and Lydie Cabane 21: Social Movements, Democracy and the State, Donatella Della Porta 22: Assimilation, Security, and Borders in the Member States, Desmond King, Patrick Le Galès, and Tommaso Vitale 23: Conclusion: The Making of a Transnational, Capitalist Policy Member State, Desmond King and Patrick Le Galès