Societal Actors In European Integration Politybuilding And Policymaking 19581992
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781137017642
Description: "In this volume an international cast of contributors analyze and discuss the role of societal actors in European integration from the creation of the present-day European Union in 1958 to the Maastricht Treaty in 1992. Based throughout on newly accessible sources the authors discuss a variety of societal actors from political parties to business groups and civil society organizations demonstrating the scope and limits of their role in European polity-building and policy-making before the Maastricht Treaty, with an outlook on the period since then. This is an important text for students and Scholars of European Studies, European Union Politics and&nbsp;contemporary History."--Publisher's website.