Description |
1 online resource |
Contents |
Intro -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1. How to Grasp the Key Democratic Transformations -- 1.1 The Key Questions -- 1.2 What Is Equality? -- 1.3 What Is Freedom? -- 1.4 What Next? -- 2. Inequalities -- 2.1 Not Only a Macro Perspective -- 2.2 Economic Inequality -- 2.3 Social Inequality -- 2.4 Ethnic Inequality and Immigration -- 2.5 Initial Concluding Remarks -- 3. Freedoms -- 3.1 The Interplay of Two Policy Waves -- 3.2 Personal Dignity: Unexpected Alarm |
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3.3 Civil Rights: A Portrait in 'Chiaroscuro' -- 3.4 Political Rights: More Public Spaces, Fewer Freedoms? -- 3.5 Subverting Freedoms: An Excursus on Poland -- 3.6 Initial Concluding Remarks -- 4. Demand and Supply: Citizens and Leaders -- 4.1 The Next Step -- 4.2 Disaffected Democracies? -- 4.3 What People Want -- 4.4 What Parties Commit To -- 4.5 Taking Stock to Go Ahead -- 5. Domestic Explanations: Inequalities -- 5.1 Starting from the Research Questions Again -- 5.2 What Affects Inequalities and Why -- 5.3 Factors at Play: Context and Institutions |
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5.4 The Relevant Actors: The Neo-Populist Challenge -- 5.5 Stronger Left, Lower Inequality? -- 5.6 Summing Up -- 6. Domestic Explanations: Freedoms -- 6.1 What Affects Freedoms and Where? -- 6.2 The Rule of Law Compound Hypothesis -- 6.3 The Additional Explanatory Steps -- 6.4 Civil Rights, Protection of Dignity, and the Improvement of Justice Systems -- 6.5 Summing Up -- 7. External Explanations: The European Union -- 7.1 What Equalities and Freedoms Does the EU Bring? -- 7.2 EU Influence on Equalities -- 7.3 EU Influence on Freedoms |
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7.4 Cross-sectional Policies: Cohesion, Migration, Digital Market -- 7.5 Concluding Remarks -- 8. Is There a Comprehensive Explanation? -- 8.1 Questions Still to Be Answered -- 8.2 Are (In)equalities and Freedoms Intertwined? -- 8.3 Building an Explanatory Model -- 8.4 Are There Alternative Explanations? -- 8.5 Before Concluding -- 9. Rethinking Democracy? Concluding Remarks -- 9.1 Empirical Perspectives in Implementing Equality and Freedom -- 9.2 What Could We Do to Promote the Two Values? -- Bibliography -- Index of Authors -- General Index |
Summary |
A wide-ranging analysis of the impact on European freedom and equality of the Great Recession of 2008 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed April 14, 2021) |
Subject |
Equality -- Europe -- History -- 21st century
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Liberty -- History -- 21st century
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Democracy -- Europe -- History -- 21st century
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Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 -- Social aspects -- Europe
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Social aspects
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Democracy
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Equality
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Liberty
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Europe
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Piana, Daniela, author.
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Quaranta, Mario, author.
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Raniolo, Francesco, author.
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Sottilotta, Cecilia Emma, author.
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Wagemann, Claudius, author.
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ISBN |
9780192543424 |
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0192543423 |
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9780192543431 |
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0192543431 |
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9780191851612 |
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0191851612 |
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