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The Europe of Elites - A Study into the Europeanness of Europe's Political and Economic Elites (Hardcover)
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The Europe of Elites - A Study into the Europeanness of Europe's Political and Economic Elites (Hardcover)
Series: IntUne
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford
Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and
selected open access locations. It has been widely acknowledged
that the process of European integration and unification was
started and is still pursued as an elite project, designed to put
an end to debilitating conflicts and rivalries by consolidating a
common power base and by pooling Europe's economic resources.
Nevertheless elites have remained the known unknowns of the
European integration process. The present volume is designed to
change this. Based on surveys of political and economic elites in
18 European countries, it is a comprehensive study of the visions,
fears, cognitions and values of members of national parliaments and
top business leaders underlying their attitudes towards European
integration. It also investigates political and economic elites'
embeddedness in transnational networks and their ability to
communicate in multicultural settings. The book strongly supports
the view of an elitist character of the process of European
integration on the one hand, while challenging the idea that
European national elites have merged or are even merging into a
coherent Eurelite on the other. As the 11 chapters of this book
show the process of European integration is much more colourful and
even contradictory than concepts of a straight forward normative
and structural integration suggest. In particular this process is
deeply rooted in, and conditional on, the social and political
settings in national contexts. The empirical basis for this book is
provided by the data of the international IntUne project, which has
for the first time created a comprehensive database combining
coordinated surveys of Europe-related attitudes at the elite and
general population level.
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