The Political History of European Integration - The Hypocrisy of Democracy-Through-Market
STRATH Bo , SCHULZ-FORBERG Hagen
Product details
- Categories: European Integration, Internal Market
- Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
- Collection: Routledge Advances in European Politics
- ISBN: 9780415502757
- Publication Date: 09/01/2012
- Binding: Paperback
- Number of pages: 242
- Language: English
Summary
This book adopts a historical perspective to explore the tensions between the idea of a European democracy through a European market, and the observations that there are signs of increasing social disintegration, political extremism and populism in the wake of economic integration.
Table of contents
Part 1: A Historical Outline: Confronting Teleological Understandings of European Integration
1. The Mythical Foundation and the Turbulent Founding Years
2. The Market and the Social
3. The Constitution and the ‘Democratic Deficit’
Part 2: The European Public Sphere in History, Theory and Practice
4. The European Public Sphere in Historical Perspective
5. The European Public Sphere in Theory
6. The European Public Sphere in Practice
Part 3: European Values and the European Union
7. European Values and History
8. The Value Production at the Political Centre
9. The Academic Value Production
Part 4: The Contours of a Historical Theory of the EU
10. The Historical Analogies
11. Towards a Realistic Historical Perspective on the European Integration
12. The Future