European integration as an elite process
Subtitle: the failure of a dream?
By: Max Haller.
Series: Routledge advances in sociology -- 40
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9780415403900
Subjects: European Union; Elite (Social sciences) -- European Union countries; Supranationalism -- European Union countries; European Union countries -- Politics and government; European Union countries -- Economic integration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-407) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Living in two different worlds? the increasing split between elites and citizens about European integration; title: European integration as an elite process : theoretical approach; title: The political elites : how integration has opened up a wide field of new political careers; title: The economic elites : between global capitalism and European (neo-) corporatism; title: The eurocracy : the irresistible growth of a new and powerful supranational bureaucratic elite; title: One union or many? public views of integration in the different EU member states; title: The dream of Europe : intellectual ideas of integration and their "realization"; title: The European Union as a "social community of law" : proposals for strengthening its social and democratic character.