Europeanizing Civil Society
Subtitle: How the EU Shapes Civil Society Organizations
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Nov 04, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781137355409
Description: The European Union (EU) has clearly made a difference for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). EU officials and European political entrepreneurs have been crucial in the promotion of funding and access opportunities, but they have been proven to have little capacity to create CSOs from scratch or to use CSOs too bluntly for their own purposes. This book brings Europeanization studies closer to society by providing a sociologically-informed analysis, which challenges current assumptions and highlights neglected areas of study. It also addresses many of the methodological challenges in the empirical study of the Europeanization of interest groups, including a comparative analysis over a long time period. The book provides a comparison across three countries, France, UK and Spain, and two policy sectors, international solidarity and social CSOs.
Notes: Source title: Europeanizing Civil Society: How the EU Shapes Civil Society Organizations (Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology)