| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 255 pages) |
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Routledge advances in European politics ; 85 |
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Routledge advances in European politics ; 85.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Europe's blues and Europe's future -- civic resources for a European Union in trouble / Viktoria Kaina, Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski -- 1. Identification and trust: resources of support for the European Union? / Bettina Westle -- 2. What does the EU mean to you personally? Citizens' images of and support for the European Union / Nicola Bücker -- 3. Trust in co-Europeans and support for European unification: extending the identity approach / Jan Delhey -- 4. "In the Union we trust"? Institutional confidence and citizens' support for supranational decision-making / Viktoria Kaina -- 5. Civic resources for European democracy in Central and Eastern Europe / Matthew Loveless -- 6. Mobilizing civic resources through e-participation in the European public sphere: problem-solving, re-legitimizing or decoupling? / Simon Smith -- 7. Conceptualizing (and tentatively mapping) the EU's social constituency / John Eik Fossum and Marit Eldhom -- 8. Caesarean citizenship and its anti-civic potencial in the European Union / Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski -- 9. From crisis to Constitution? Europe's path from culture to politics / Enno Rudolph -- 10. Analysing European identity: the need for civic resources / Viktoria Kaina |
| Summary |
This book shines new light on the political system of the European Union (EU) by focusing on civic resources as a keystone of the EU's ability to sustain. Less-tangible resources such as trust, solidarity, mutual recognition and citizens' social and political participation have been, until now, largely ignored in the research on European integration. Due to the fundamental changes to the EU in recent years and the challenges ahead, European citizens have become increasingly critical of a long-lasting unification process in Europe. This volume theoretically and empirica |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
European Union
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| SUBJECT |
European Union fast |
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Citizenship -- European Union countries
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Civics, European.
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LAW -- International.
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Citizenship
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Civics, European
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European Union countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Karolewski, Ireneusz Paweł
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Kaina, Victoria
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| ISBN |
9780203106280 |
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0203106288 |
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9781136257346 |
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1136257349 |
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9781136257339 |
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1136257330 |
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9781136257292 |
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1136257292 |
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9781138822238 |
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113882223X |
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