Politicising Europe: Integration and Mass Politics - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107568307 ISBN 13: 9781107568303

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Politicising Europe presents the most comprehensive contribution to empirical research on politicisation to date. The study is innovative in both conceptual and empirical terms. Conceptually, the contributors develop and apply a new index and typology of politicisation. Empirically, the volume presents a huge amount of original data, tracing politicisation in a comparative perspective over more than forty years. Focusing on six European countries (Austria, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK) from the 1970s to the current euro crisis, the book examines conflicts over Europe in election campaigns, street protests, and public debates on every major step in the integration process. It shows that European integration has indeed become politicised. However, the patterns and developments differ markedly across countries and arenas, and many of the key hypotheses on the driving forces of change need to be revisited in view of new findings.

About this title

Book Description:

Politicising Europe presents the most comprehensive effort to map and explain conflicts over European integration in election campaigns, street protests, and public debates. It focuses on six European countries (Austria, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK) and puts the conflicts over the current euro crisis in historical and theoretical perspective.

About the Author:

Swen Hutter is a postdoctoral research fellow at the European University Institute.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1107568307
• ISBN 13: 9781107568303
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360
• Editor: Hutter Swen