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Contentious Europeans - Protest and Politics in an Integrating Europe (Paperback)
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Contentious Europeans - Protest and Politics in an Integrating Europe (Paperback)
Series: Governance in Europe Series
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Is the process of European integration shifting the targets of
social movements from the national arena to the European Union
level? Does the EU remain isolated from the reach of national
democratic politics? Or are social movements responding to the
transnational issues posed by the European Union, but continuing to
do so by treading the traditional pathways of nation-specific
contentious politics? Addressing these key but hitherto unexplored
questions, this groundbreaking volume explores how European
citizens are responding to the growing policymaking power of the
EU. The contributors argue that the emergence of a supranational
realm of European government offers new opportunities and
constraints for domestic social actors. In this new transnational
realm, groups such as environmentalists, students, and trade
unionists can not only undertake traditional domestic forms of
contentious action, but also link together across national borders.
At the same time, the volume cautions against rushing to herald a
new era of transnational mobilization, as significant barriers
remain to launching contentious action in the transnational realm,
national governments continue to play a primary role in
policymaking before the EU, and tried-and-true routines of
collective action and institutions attach citizens to their
national political systems. At the heart of the book is a newly
developed theoretical framework, which is rigorously tested against
the evidence offered by the editors' longitudinal and
cross-national database on contentious political action, as well as
by a series of sector-specific case studies. The combination of
theory and original research will make this an important reference
for scholars as well as a valuable supplement in courses on
comparative politics, Western Europe, and social movements.
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