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This book decisively advances the academic debate on politicisation
beyond the state of the art. It is the first book to theorise and
conceptualise 'politicisation' across the epistemic communities of
different subdisciplines, bringing together the different strands
in the debate: (international) political theory, political
sociology, comparative politics, EU studies, legal theory and
international relations. This provides a comprehensive discussion
of different concepts of politicisation, their ontological and
theoretical backgrounds, and their analytical value, including
speech-act, practice- and actor-oriented approaches. Furthermore,
the linkages of politicisation to the concepts of politics and the
political, democracy, depoliticisation, juridification, populism,
and Euroscepticism are clarified. Finally, the book shows how the
methodological toolbox in empirical politicisation research can be
completed regarding different arenas, actors and modes of
politicisation. The volume thus provides a much-needed theoretical
and conceptual reflection to the newly emerging research field of
politicisation in order to recognise and define the key issues and
build a solid foundation for further debate and empirical research.
'When does something come to be considered political - for good or
for ill? In social scientific terms, what is politicisation, under
what conditions does it occur, created by whom, and with what
consequences. These questions drive this outstanding collection of
papers that explore how politicization is to be theorized and
methodologies for its study. Rather than just a special sphere of
activity, the volume demonstrates how politics is best thought of
as an activity that can occur across individual and various
collective levels. One of the signature contributions of this
volume is its exploration of these issues across disciplines:
political science, philosophy, sociology and international
relations. The texts will be of interest to all students of
politics at a time when the very basis of political identity,
action, and organization is contested, normatively and
analytically. The texts will help bring clarity to these debates.'
-David L. Swartz, Department of Sociology, Boston University, USA
'Politization has become a widely used and disputed term In
International Relations (IR) and more recently in comparative
politics as well. This edited volume tries to elevate the term
politization onto an analytical concept by i.a. opening it up for
action theoretical and organizational approaches. One of the great
achievements of the editor is to bring conceptual order into a
dispersed debate across political science and its subdisciplines.
Moreover, the contributions show how to apply the concept(s) of
politization on such different subjects such as democratization,
de-democratization, transitions, denationalization or the emergence
of populism and Euroscepticism. This is a muchawaited book which
can become a conceptual point of reference for better understanding
the evolution of national and international regimes.' -Wolfgang
Merkel, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
This book explicates how debates and documents can be understood,
interpreted and analysed as political action. It offers the reader
both a theoretical introduction and practical guidance. The authors
deploy the perspective that debates are to be understood as
political activity, and documents can be regarded as frozen
debates. The first chapter discusses what is to be understood as
politics and political. The second chapter explains the concept of
debate as an exchange of arguments in speaking pro and contra. The
third chapter presents concrete approaches, research practices and
experiences that help analysing debates and documents as politics.
The fourth chapter consists of a number of case studies that
demonstrate how researchers can proceed in analysing parliamentary
debates, documents, laws, and media articles. This book will be of
use to all students and scholars interested in analysing texts and
documents, as well as in political rhetoric and parliamentary
debates. &n bsp;
What is Europe? What are the contents of the concept of Europe? And
what defines European identity? Instead of only asking these
classical questions, this volume also explores who asks these
questions, and who is addressed with such questions. Who answers
the questions, from which standpoints and for what reasons? Which
philosophical, historical, religious or political traditions
influence the answers? This book addresses its task in three parts.
The first concentrates on the controversies around the meaning of
Europe. The second focuses on the role of the European Union. The
third discusses Europe and its relations to different types of
otherness, or rather, non-European-ness. The volume produces a
complex and plural picture of the concepts, ideas, debates and
(ex)changes associated with the concept of Europe, and has a clear
significance for today's debates on European identity,
Europeanization, and the EU.
The open access book aims at discussing the manifold consequences
that the War against Ukraine bears for the European Union and EU
Studies. It takes stock of the fact that the Russian Attack on
Ukraine and the ensuing War not only affects the Global Order, but
also has challenged a number of established narratives and
convictions for the European Union and its member states. The EU
now needs to position itself in the changing world order.
Concretely it needs to deal with a number of membership
applications, internal and external challenges to liberal
democracy, and the development of its strategic autonomy in a
number of decisive policy fields. The book convenes experienced
scholars, with chapters covering the following themes and fields:
Theories, approaches and concepts in EU studies and IR; the EU and
the changing European and Global Order; the War and defence of
liberal democracy; Membership Politics; Energy Policy.
What is Europe? What are the contents of the concept of Europe? And
what defines European identity? Instead of only asking these
classical questions, this volume also explores who asks these
questions, and who is addressed with such questions. Who answers
the questions, from which standpoints and for what reasons? Which
philosophical, historical, religious or political traditions
influence the answers? This book addresses its task in three parts.
The first concentrates on the controversies around the meaning of
Europe. The second focuses on the role of the European Union. The
third discusses Europe and its relations to different types of
otherness, or rather, non-European-ness. The volume produces a
complex and plural picture of the concepts, ideas, debates and
(ex)changes associated with the concept of Europe, and has a clear
significance for today's debates on European identity,
Europeanization, and the EU.
Citizenship is a core concept for the social sciences, and
citizenship is also frequently interpreted, challenged and
contested in different political arenas. Shaping Citizenship
explores how the concept is debated and contested, defined and
redefined, used and constructed by different agents, at different
times, and with regard to both theory and practice. The book uses a
reflexive and constructivist perspective on the concept of
citizenship that draws on the theory and methodology of conceptual
history. This approach enables a panorama of politically important
readings on citizenship that provide an interdisciplinary
perspective and help to transcend narrow and simplified views on
citizenship. The three parts of the book focus respectively on
theories, debates and practices of citizenship. In the chapters,
constructions and struggles related to citizenship are approached
by experts from different fields. Thematically the chapters focus
on political representation, migration, internationalization,
sub-and transnationalization as well as the Europeanisation of
citizenship. An indispensable read to scholars and students,
Shaping Citizenship presents new ways to study the conceptual
changes, struggles and debates related to core dimensions of this
ever-evolving concept.
In light of the handover from the European Central Bank President
Mario Draghi to Christine Lagarde in November 2019, this book
provides an in-depth analysis of the events which unfolded since
the euro area sovereign debt crisis in 2010 up until today. The
book focuses on the far-reaching implications of the last decade,
shedding light on a wide spectrum of political, economic and
financial aspects of the European poly-crises and how monetary
policy reacted to these challenges. The book places particular
emphasis on the tensions that the supranational central bank was
subject to during this period, and on their outcomes in terms of
the policies, their legitimacy, and their public reception. As
such, this book will be relevant not only to understand the
political implications of the past crisis but also, and foremost,
in understanding "what is next".
This book decisively advances the academic debate on politicisation
beyond the state of the art. It is the first book to theorise and
conceptualise 'politicisation' across the epistemic communities of
different subdisciplines, bringing together the different strands
in the debate: (international) political theory, political
sociology, comparative politics, EU studies, legal theory and
international relations. This provides a comprehensive discussion
of different concepts of politicisation, their ontological and
theoretical backgrounds, and their analytical value, including
speech-act, practice- and actor-oriented approaches. Furthermore,
the linkages of politicisation to the concepts of politics and the
political, democracy, depoliticisation, juridification, populism,
and Euroscepticism are clarified. Finally, the book shows how the
methodological toolbox in empirical politicisation research can be
completed regarding different arenas, actors and modes of
politicisation. The volume thus provides a much-needed theoretical
and conceptual reflection to the newly emerging research field of
politicisation in order to recognise and define the key issues and
build a solid foundation for further debate and empirical research.
'When does something come to be considered political - for good or
for ill? In social scientific terms, what is politicisation, under
what conditions does it occur, created by whom, and with what
consequences. These questions drive this outstanding collection of
papers that explore how politicization is to be theorized and
methodologies for its study. Rather than just a special sphere of
activity, the volume demonstrates how politics is best thought of
as an activity that can occur across individual and various
collective levels. One of the signature contributions of this
volume is its exploration of these issues across disciplines:
political science, philosophy, sociology and international
relations. The texts will be of interest to all students of
politics at a time when the very basis of political identity,
action, and organization is contested, normatively and
analytically. The texts will help bring clarity to these debates.'
-David L. Swartz, Department of Sociology, Boston University, USA
'Politization has become a widely used and disputed term In
International Relations (IR) and more recently in comparative
politics as well. This edited volume tries to elevate the term
politization onto an analytical concept by i.a. opening it up for
action theoretical and organizational approaches. One of the great
achievements of the editor is to bring conceptual order into a
dispersed debate across political science and its subdisciplines.
Moreover, the contributions show how to apply the concept(s) of
politization on such different subjects such as democratization,
de-democratization, transitions, denationalization or the emergence
of populism and Euroscepticism. This is a muchawaited book which
can become a conceptual point of reference for better understanding
the evolution of national and international regimes.' -Wolfgang
Merkel, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
The EU as a democratic polity has been invented: it is a product of
creative and innovative actors and thinkers that conceptualized and
by and by helped to realise it, from the beginning up to the
present. But the concepts, ideas, and utopias of a democratic
Europe differ considerably. The processes of inventing and building
a democratic EU are marked by conceptual controversies in both
public and academic debates. These are the resource for the present
book, which focuses on the concepts, actors and controversies
related to inventing the EU as a democratic polity. The chapters
study exemplary long-term and detail cases related to inventing and
institutionalizing the decisive elements of representative
democracy in the EU-a parliament, citizens that vote for it in
universal suffrage and governmental bodies that are linked to
parliament in much the same way as government is in a parliamentary
democracy.
Citizenship is a core concept for the social sciences, and
citizenship is also frequently interpreted, challenged and
contested in different political arenas. Shaping Citizenship
explores how the concept is debated and contested, defined and
redefined, used and constructed by different agents, at different
times, and with regard to both theory and practice. The book uses a
reflexive and constructivist perspective on the concept of
citizenship that draws on the theory and methodology of conceptual
history. This approach enables a panorama of politically important
readings on citizenship that provide an interdisciplinary
perspective and help to transcend narrow and simplified views on
citizenship. The three parts of the book focus respectively on
theories, debates and practices of citizenship. In the chapters,
constructions and struggles related to citizenship are approached
by experts from different fields. Thematically the chapters focus
on political representation, migration, internationalization,
sub-and transnationalization as well as the Europeanisation of
citizenship. An indispensable read to scholars and students,
Shaping Citizenship presents new ways to study the conceptual
changes, struggles and debates related to core dimensions of this
ever-evolving concept.
In light of the handover from the European Central Bank President
Mario Draghi to Christine Lagarde in November 2019, this book
provides an in-depth analysis of the events which unfolded since
the euro area sovereign debt crisis in 2010 up until today. The
book focuses on the far-reaching implications of the last decade,
shedding light on a wide spectrum of political, economic and
financial aspects of the European poly-crises and how monetary
policy reacted to these challenges. The book places particular
emphasis on the tensions that the supranational central bank was
subject to during this period, and on their outcomes in terms of
the policies, their legitimacy, and their public reception. As
such, this book will be relevant not only to understand the
political implications of the past crisis but also, and foremost,
in understanding "what is next".
The EU as a democratic polity has been invented: it is a product of
creative and innovative actors and thinkers that conceptualized and
by and by helped to realise it, from the beginning up to the
present. But the concepts, ideas, and utopias of a democratic
Europe differ considerably. The processes of inventing and building
a democratic EU are marked by conceptual controversies in both
public and academic debates. These are the resource for the present
book, which focuses on the concepts, actors and controversies
related to inventing the EU as a democratic polity. The chapters
study exemplary long-term and detail cases related to inventing and
institutionalizing the decisive elements of representative
democracy in the EU-a parliament, citizens that vote for it in
universal suffrage and governmental bodies that are linked to
parliament in much the same way as government is in a parliamentary
democracy.
Lokales Regieren - Innovation und Evaluation: Die drei Begriffe
verweisen auf einen Zusammenhang, der noch wenig erforscht ist.
Zwar werden die drei Bereiche fur sich genommen - jeweils mehr oder
weniger stark - debattiert und untersucht, das gilt aber noch kaum
fur deren Bezuge. So wird Regieren, auch auf lokaler Ebene, mitsamt
seinen Veranderungen und der Entwicklung hin von Regieren/
Government zu Governance umfassend und auch aktuell diskutiert;
seltener jedoch werden Regieren oder auch Governance-Prozesse
wirklich mittels theoretisch und methodisch begrundeter Indikatoren
evaluiert. Politikinnovationen sind seit einigen Jahren ein Thema,
das an Bedeutung gewinnt; entsprechende Konzepte werden auch fur
die lokale Ebene seit Langerem diskutiert. Nicht selten werden
darauf beruhende Politikinnovationen auch evaluiert, so dass
Evaluation und Evaluatio- forschung ebenfalls seit einigen Jahren
an Bedeutung gewinnen. Allerdings scheint dabei die Praxis, also
die Evaluation von konkreten Projekten, zumindest in Deutschland
derzeit noch weiter gediehen zu sein als die theoretische und
metho- sche Befassung mit Gegenstand, Auftrag, Vorgehensweisen und
spezifischen Pr- lemen der Evaluationsforschung oder auch der
Politikberatung. Der vorliegende Band stosst somit in eine Lucke
vor, indem er die Evalua- on von Politikinnovationen des lokalen
Regierens theoretisch, konzeptionell und mit Blick auf die
Ergebnisse der Evaluation einer Modellprojekts darstellt. Er
entstand aufgrund eines umfangreich angelegten,
Multi-Methoden-Projekts zur Evaluation des Interkulturellen Zentrum
JobKomm" in Giessen. Dieses hatte das Ziel, insbesondere
Migrantinnen und Migranten zu qualifizieren und in den - beitsmarkt
zu integrieren."
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