Europeanizing Civil Society [electronic resource] : How the EU Shapes Civil Society Organizations /
Salgado, Rosa Sanchez.author.
The European Union clearly matters for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). EU officials and European political entrepreneurs has been crucial in the promotion of funding and access opportunities, but they have been proven to have little capacity to use CSOs for their own purposes.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables, Figures and Boxes; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The development of research on European CSOs: Fragmentary and unbalanced; 2 The EU's role in changing domestic CSOs: A sociologically informed analysis; 3 A sociological comparative approach; 4 Outline of the book: Europeanization of CSOs as a EU-driven process; 1 The Europeanization of CSOs-Institutional Impact or Strategic Action?; 1 Europeanization studies, including a sociological dimension?; 2 Combining approaches: The challenge of the research design
3 A sociological comparative approachPart I: Domestic Civil Society under EU Pressures; 2 Domestic Civil Society: National or European?; 1 The usages of European funds: A bottom-up perspective; 2 The externalization of CSOs: Following the money; 3 Europeanization on the cheap: Transnationalization and internalization; 4 CSOs' varying degrees of Europeanization; 3 A European Policy for CSOs? Exploring European Political Opportunities; 1 The absence of EU legal constraints; 2 Funding opportunities: Regulating activities through spending power?
3 Access opportunities: From instrumental pragmatism to democratic opportunism?4 European Opportunities: Institutional Factors and Creative Usages; 1 CSOs' use of EU opportunities: Transforming the European civil society landscape?; 2 The usages by Europe: EU-driven shaping of CSOs; 3 The usages of Europe: Where there is a will, there is a way; Part II: Europeanizing CSOs through European Opportunities; 5 EU Funding of CSOs: From New Public to New Civic Management; 1 EU funding and the growth of CSOs; 2 The EU role in the promotion of New Public Management among CSOs
6 CSOs and Identity Building: Cheerleaders for European Integration?1 CSOs' potential contribution to identity building; 2 The promotion of European values: Civic engagement or instrumentalization?; 3 Promoting EU visibility through CSOs: Mixed results; 4 Transnational cooperation: Europeanization as cross-loading; Part III: Europeanizing Civil Society through Participation; 7 The Europeanization of CSOs' Participation: Beyond the Brussels Consensus; 1 Revisiting portrayals of the CSOs Brussels Consensus; 2 The Europeanization of CSOs beyond the Brussels complex
3 The Europeanization of advocacy activities from belowConclusion: The Political Construction of European Civil Society: Legitimate and Democratic?; 1 Integrating a sociological dimension in Europeanization studies; 2 The shaping of CSOs: Legitimate and democratic?; Appendix 1: Interviews; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The European Union clearly matters for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). EU officials and European political entrepreneurs has been crucial in the promotion of funding and access opportunities, but they have been proven to have little capacity to use CSOs for their own purposes.
Ethnology-Europe.
Political sociology.
European Union.
Political science.
European Culture.
Political Sociology.
European Union Politics.
Political Science.
Sociology, general.
Human Rights.