Europe in search of political order : an institutional perspective on unity/diversity, citizens/their helpers, democratic design/historical drift and the co-existence of orders / Johan P. Olsen
The possibility of political order -- The legacy : nationalization of political life -- 'Europeanization' : a fashionable and contested term -- A prelude to an institutional account -- What role for Euro-citizens? -- ' ... to serve the citizens of Europe' -- Institutions of governance : can democracies choose them? -- Reformers as pawns, engineers and gardeners -- Coping with conflict at constitutional moments -- The Europeanization of the territorial state? -- Towards a European administrative space?
Summary
One of the world's most influential Political Scientists provides an innovative perspective on institutional change and reform in the EU. - ;This book deals with ongoing processes of European cooperation and integration, processes that may have a potential to change the political organization of Europe. Based on ideas from 'the new institutionalism' the book offers a systematic perspective on institutional change and in particular the role of institutions in relation to four central and durable issues in the study of political life. These are: (1) the mediation between unity and diversity: wha
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-315) and index
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