Diversity In The European Union

Author : Elisabeth Prügl,Markus Thiel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230104167

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Diversity in the European Union by Elisabeth Prügl,Markus Thiel Pdf

This volume provides an overview of EU actions seeking to manage diversity, introduces a conceptual framework to think about diversity in the European Union, and provides a tapestry of cases that illustrate minority politics and activism, contestations over identity and difference, and the construction of new meanings of European citizenship.

Author : Florian Bieber,Roland Bieber
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030550165

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Negotiating Unity and Diversity in the European Union by Florian Bieber,Roland Bieber Pdf

This book explores how the European Union has been responding to the challenge of diversity. In doing so, it considers the EU as a complex polity that has found novel ways for accommodating diversity. Much of the literature on the EU seeks to identify it as a unique case of cooperation between states that moves past classic international cooperation. This volume argues that in order to understand the EU’s effort in managing the diversity among its members and citizens it is more effective to look at the EU as a state. While acknowledging that the EU lacks key aspects of statehood, the authors show that looking at the EU efforts to balance diversity and unity through the lens of state policy is a fruitful way to understand the Union. Instead of conceptualising the EU as being incomparable and unique which is neither an international organisation nor a state, the book argues that EU can be understood as a polity that shares many approaches and strategies with complex and diverse states. As such, its effort to build political structures to accommodate diversity offers lessons to other such polities. The experience of the EU contributes to the understanding of how states and other polities can respond to challenges of diversity, including both the diversity of constituent units or of sub-national groups and identities.

Author : Peter Mair,Jan Zielonka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136344633

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The Enlarged European Union by Peter Mair,Jan Zielonka Pdf

Focusing upon the emerging patterns of unity and diversity in the enlarged European Union, this study explores enlargement from the East and the impact this will have on the future identity of Europe.

Author : Elisabeth Prügl,Markus Thiel
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349381977

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Diversity in the European Union by Elisabeth Prügl,Markus Thiel Pdf

This volume provides an overview of EU actions seeking to manage diversity, introduces a conceptual framework to think about diversity in the European Union, and provides a tapestry of cases that illustrate minority politics and activism, contestations over identity and difference, and the construction of new meanings of European citizenship.

Author : Florian Bieber,Roland Bieber
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 303055015X

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Negotiating Unity and Diversity in the European Union by Florian Bieber,Roland Bieber Pdf

This book explores how the European Union has been responding to the challenge of diversity. In doing so, it considers the EU as a complex polity that has found novel ways for accommodating diversity. Much of the literature on the EU seeks to identify it as a unique case of cooperation between states that moves past classic international cooperation. This volume argues that in order to understand the EU’s effort in managing the diversity among its members and citizens it is more effective to look at the EU as a state. While acknowledging that the EU lacks key aspects of statehood, the authors show that looking at the EU efforts to balance diversity and unity through the lens of state policy is a fruitful way to understand the Union. Instead of conceptualising the EU as being incomparable and unique which is neither an international organisation nor a state, the book argues that EU can be understood as a polity that shares many approaches and strategies with complex and diverse states. As such, its effort to build political structures to accommodate diversity offers lessons to other such polities. The experience of the EU contributes to the understanding of how states and other polities can respond to challenges of diversity, including both the diversity of constituent units or of sub-national groups and identities.

Author : Dieter Fuchs,Hans-Dieter Klingemann
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857938084

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Cultural Diversity, European Identity and the Legitimacy of the EU by Dieter Fuchs,Hans-Dieter Klingemann Pdf

As a consequence of various rounds of EU enlargements, the degree of cultural diversity in Europe has intensified a phenomenon which is increasingly perceived as problematic by many EU citizens. This fascinating book not only empirically explores the current state of the identity and the legitimacy of the EU as viewed by its citizens, but also evaluates their attitudes towards it. The expert contributors show that the development of a European identity and a common European culture is a prerequisite for European integration; that European identity and a common political culture will not develop rapidly but emerge slowly, and that the beginnings of a European identity and a common European culture are currently emerging. The roles of civil society organizations and political parties are examined within this context, and an explanatory model with subjective predictors of the attitudes towards the EU is tested. The empirical analysis is underpinned by a theoretical framework incorporating operational definitions and conceptual discussion of legitimacy and identity. This intriguing and thought-provoking book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and students focusing on political science and international relations.

Author : Gavan Titley,Alana Lentin
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9287161712

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The Politics of Diversity in Europe by Gavan Titley,Alana Lentin Pdf

Diversity has become a key term in contemporary social politics, and is often used as both a description of complex social realities and a normative prescription for how those realities should be valued, influenced by the politics of multiculturalism and by social movements asserting "the right to be different" diversity has emerged as an open, fluid discourse that challenges reductive visions of legitimate identities and human possibilities.It is this apparent acceptance of diversity as a fact and value that this book looks at in several ways, it offers a countervailing assessment of diversity, seeing it less as a unifying social imaginary and more as a cost-free form of politics attuned to the needs of late capitalist, consumer societies.The essays collected here are developed from a research seminar entitled "Diversity, Human Rights and Participation" organised by the Partnership on Youth between the Council of Europe and the European Commission. The studies gathered here are embedded in 10 different national contexts. They track dimensions of 'diversity' in education, social services, jurisprudence, parliamentary proceedings and employment initiatives, and assess their significances for the social actors who must negotiate these frameworks in their daily experience.

Author : Xabier Arzoz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027291325

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Respecting Linguistic Diversity in the European Union by Xabier Arzoz Pdf

After the accession of ten new member-states in 2004, the number of official EU languages increased from eleven to twenty. In 2005, the Council of the European Union decided to expand the existing legal framework for Irish and for other languages, such as Basque, Catalan and Galician, which are official in all or part of the territory of a given member-state. On 1 January 2007 Bulgaria and Romania joined the EU, increasing the number of official EU languages still further. This book addresses the challenge of respecting linguistic diversity within the EU and is intended as an introduction to the issue for those not already familiar with EU law. It also provides an analysis of the potential of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union to enhance respect for linguistic diversity. Each chapter has been written by a recognised expert in the field. The appendices bring together the basic legal norms relating to linguistic diversity within EU institutions.

Author : Peter Mair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:263672609

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The Enlarged European Union by Peter Mair Pdf

Author : Jens Alber,Neil Gilbert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199704104

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United in Diversity? by Jens Alber,Neil Gilbert Pdf

Since the advent of the European Union, politicians have increasingly emphasized the notion of a European social model as an alternative to the American form of market capitalism, which is seen as promoting economic growth without regard for solidarity and social progress. As this political discourse has advanced, social scientists and academic policy analysts have raised questions concerning the extent to which the E.U. and U.S. social models exist outside the minds of diplomats and politicians seeking to stitch together a common identity. How much unity is there still within Europe after the Eastern enlargements have considerably increased economic and cultural diversity? To whatever extent one might discern a distinct set of commonalities that represent the core of a European approach, how different are the European characteristics of social, economic, and political life from those of America? Addressing these issues, this book systematically analyzes how much European countries and the United States have in common and how much variation we find within the enlarged European Union in eight central spheres of socio-economic and political life: employment, equality/mobility, educational opportunity, integration of immigrants, democratic functioning, political participation, rights to welfare, and levels of public spending. Drawing on empirical analyses by U.S. and European scholars who represent multi-disciplinary backgrounds, each of these topics is put under scrutiny. The results of this study illuminate points of convergence and divergence as seen from the perspectives of scholars from both sides of the Atlantic.

Author : Adrienne Windhoff-Héritier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999-11-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521653843

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Policy-Making and Diversity in Europe by Adrienne Windhoff-Héritier Pdf

Shows how policy-making in Europe works despite diverse interests.

Author : Lesley McMillan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317149118

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Diversity, Standardization and Social Transformation by Lesley McMillan Pdf

Arranged around the themes of theorizing and policy-making, race, ethnicity and religion, gender, and class, inequality and welfare, this book addresses the question of whether the European Union tends towards diversification or standardization. It engages with issues of identity, citizenship and social justice, changes throughout the life course, social movements, the reconciliation of work and life, the increasing diversity of cultural values, and integration and immigration, whilst also examining questions of social inclusion and exclusion. Presenting a general theoretical framework for the simultaneous analysis of standardization and diversification processes, alongside detailed case studies at EU and national levels, Diversity, Standardization and Social Transformation explores the interactions between national, European and regional regulatory spaces.

Author : Eva Thomann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319926841

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Customized Implementation of European Union Food Safety Policy by Eva Thomann Pdf

“As a Journal Editor for over twenty-five years, I have read a lot about the European Union. I am often asked, 'what are the major gaps in EU research?' My answer is always 'implementation'. Eva Thomann's book makes a major contribution to EU implementation studies. She brings really fresh thinking to the field. This is an important book for all students of the EU and of policy implementation." —Jeremy Richardson, Co-Editor of the Journal of European Public Policy This book sheds light on the patterns, causes and consequences of the “customization” of European Union (EU) policies. Even if they comply, member states interpret and adapt EU rules in very diverse ways when putting them into practice. We can think of and measure this diversity as a phenomenon of regulatory change along the implementation chain. The book explores what explains customization, and what it means for providing policy solutions to shared problems. It studies the implementation of EU food safety policies in Austria, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Switzerland using innovative qualitative comparative techniques. After looking at the role of prominent compliance arguments and the “logics of action” for customization, the study assesses how differing degrees of customization affect the success of the implementation. The book provides a new, evidence-based perspective on “gold-plating” and better regulation in Europe for scholars, students and practitioners of policy implementation, European integration and Europeanization alike.

Author : Robin Wilson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781786438171

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Meeting the Challenge of Cultural Diversity in Europe by Robin Wilson Pdf

Europe has talked itself into a refugee and security crisis. There is, however, a misrecognition of the real challenge facing Europe: the challenge of managing the relationship between Europeans and the currently stigmatized ‘others’ which it has attracted. Making the case against a ‘Europe of walls’, Robin Wilson instead proposes a refounding of Europe built on the power of diversity and an ethos of hospitality rather than an institutional thicket serving the market.

Author : David Turton,Julia González
Publisher : Universidad de Deusto
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788498305029

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Ethnic Diversity in Europe by David Turton,Julia González Pdf

Ethnic diversity is on increase in Europe; at the same time, there is evidence of growing anti-immigrant feeling in some countries, such as Spain (especially in the Southern provinces). In order to build a politically united and democratic Europe, the accommodation of ethnic diversity and the integration of ethnic minorities are both key challenges. This book tries to explain ethnic problems in Europe.