Reconfiguring European states in crisis /
Reconfiguring European States in Crisis offers a ground-breaking analysis by some of Europe's leading political scientists, examining how the European national state and the European Union state have dealt with two sorts of changes in the last two decades. Firstly, the volume analyses the growt...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Reconfiguring European States in Crisis; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; 1: Introduction: A Reconfigured State? European Policy States in a Globalizing World; Multidimensionality of the State; The State: A Working Definition; Governmentalization: European States as Policy States; More Mobility, More Differentiation, More Networks Challenge European States; Four Processes to Explain the Reconfiguration of European States.
- Process 1: European States within a World of States, International Organizations, Regions, Cities, and Non-State AuthoritiesNation-States meet the European State; European Citizens?; Dilation of the State: Federalism, Regions, and Cities; Process 2: Market-Making States or State-Making Markets?; Process 3: The Reforms of Performative State Bureaucracy: More Rationalization versus Neoliberalism; New Technologies of Government: High-Tech and Big Data; New Configurations for Policy Delivery; Process 4: The Decline of Hard (Military) Politics and the Rise of the Security State.
- Less War, More Control?Acknowledgements; References; Part I: Changing Scales of European States; 2: Nation-State to Member State: Trajectories of State Reconfiguration and Recomposition in Europe; Introduction; Bringing Politics Back In; The Concept of the Member State; The Institutional Balance; Bureaucratic Composition; Policymaking Processes; Member Statehood and the Crisis of `Party Democracy;́ Thinking About State Reconfiguration; Conclusion; 3: The Rise of Non-State Authority and the Reconfiguration of the State; State versus Non-State Authority; Varieties of Non-State Authority.
- International AuthorityPrivate Authority; Transnational Authority; State Management of Non-State Authority; Intermediation; Marketization; Nudging; Conclusion: State and Non-State Authority, Complementarity and Conflict; References; 4: From the Nation-State to the Global Polity; Ambiguities of the State; The First Cycle: Rise and Growth; The Second Cycle: The Decline of the State; The Third Cycle: Resurgence of the State; The State in Flux; Methodological Implications; 5: Unbundling Sovereign Rights through Incomplete Contracting: Empowering European Transnational Networks beyond the State.
- IntroductionShifting Conceptualizations of Sovereignty in the European Union; Unbundling Sovereign Rights and Surrendering Governance to Third Parties by Incomplete Contracting; Incomplete Contracting in the EU and the Rise of Supranational Adjudication; Monetary Union after the Crisis: `An Ungovernable and Unmanageable Anarchy ́or New Modalities of Governance?; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; 6: The Territorial State; The Territorial State; Functional Rescaling; European Spatial Frames; Political Rescaling; The Urban Condition; State Response; Building Territories.