Active Citizenship in Europe [electronic resource] : Practices and Demands in the EU, Italy, Turkey and the UK  /
Bee, Cristiano.author.
The book provides an overview of key issues in the debate concerning the emergence of active citizenship in Europe. The specific focus of enquiry is the promotion of patterns of civic and political engagement and civic and political participation by the EU and the relative responses drawn by organizations of the civil society operating at the supranational level and in Italy, Turkey and the UK. More specifically, it addresses key debates on the engagement and participation of organized civil society across the permanent state of euro-crisis, considering the production of policy discourses along the continuum that characterized three subsequent and interrelated emergency situations (democratic, financial and migration crises) that have hit Europe since 2005. Active Citizenship in Europe will be of interest to students and scholars in a range of fields, including sociology, politics, European studies and international studies.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Insights on the social construction of Europe: patterns in the permanent state of euro-crisis -- 3. Europeanization, public sphere and active citizenship -- 4. Active citizenship and its components -- 5. Active citizenship: policy developments at the EU level -- 6. Engagement and participation: opportunities and challenges for the organized civil society in the EU -- 7. Active citizenship in Italy -- 8. Active citizenship in Turkey -- 9. Active citizenship in the UK -- 10. Conclusion.
The book provides an overview of key issues in the debate concerning the emergence of active citizenship in Europe. The specific focus of enquiry is the promotion of patterns of civic and political engagement and civic and political participation by the EU and the relative responses drawn by organizations of the civil society operating at the supranational level and in Italy, Turkey and the UK. More specifically, it addresses key debates on the engagement and participation of organized civil society across the permanent state of euro-crisis, considering the production of policy discourses along the continuum that characterized three subsequent and interrelated emergency situations (democratic, financial and migration crises) that have hit Europe since 2005. Active Citizenship in Europe will be of interest to students and scholars in a range of fields, including sociology, politics, European studies and international studies.
Political sociology.
Political Sociology.