This collection foregrounds the institutional fault lines, ideas and ideologies that make todays EU a uniquely segmented political order. Its thought-provoking contributions help us see that different aspects of European governance are simultaneously moving in several different directions and that this has major consequences for how we understand its whole system.
Craig Parsons, University of Oregon, USA
TOWARDS A SEGMENTED EUROPEAN POLITICAL ORDER
Towards a Segmented European Political Order This book makes a distinctive contribution to the crucial debate on the European Union (EU)s present and future development.
It systematically examines how the range of crises and challenges over the last decade have transformed the EU and relates those findings to the discussion of an increasingly differentiated EU. It argues that the post-crises EU shows clear signs of becoming a segmented political order with in-built biases and constraints. The book spells out the key features of such an order in ideational and structural terms and shows how it more concretely manifests itself in the EUs institutional and constitutional make-up and in how member states constrain and condition EU action. Different states impose different types of constraints, as is underlined through paying explicit attention to the Visegrd countries.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of EU politics/studies, European integration and politics, East European politics and foreign policy.
Jozef Btora is Professor at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, and at the International Relations Department, Webster Vienna Private University, Austria.
John Erik Fossum is Professor at the ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway.
Routledge Studies on Democratising Europe
This series focuses on the prospects for a citizens Europe by analysing the kind of order that is emerging in Europe. The books in the series take stock of the EU as an entity that has progressed beyond intergovernmentalism and consider how to account for this process and what makes it democratic. The emphasis is on citizenship, constitution-making, public sphere, enlargement, common foreign and security policy, and Europe society.
Series editors: Erik Oddvar Eriksen and John Erik Fossum, ARENA, University of Oslo, Norway.
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CONTENTS
Jozef Btora and John Erik Fossum
John Erik Fossum
Bent Sofus Trany and Herman Mark Schwartz
Cathrine Holst and Anders Molander
Espen D.H. Olsen
John Gould and Darina Malov
Asimina Michailidou and Hans-Jrg Trenz
Jozef Btora
Rafa Riedel
Max Steuer
Michal Onderco
Christopher Lord
Jozef Btora and John Erik Fossum
Government debt to GDP relative to German debt to GDP ratio |
Female labour force participation (% of 16-64-year-olds) relative to the German level |
Total (M+F) labour force participation (% of 16-64-year-olds) relative to the German level |
Current account balance, % of GDP |
Household debt, index, 1995 = 100 |
Housing price index, 2000 = 100 |
Per cent unemployed in Slovakia by region |
Number of articles in each newspaper |
Incidences of the most common types of crises in the analysed articles (in %) |
Frames in the first category the actor in focus |
Incidences of the most common frames in the first category (in % of the total number of included articles into the category separately for each newspaper) |
Frames in the second category the evaluation dimension |
Incidences of the most common frames in the second category (in % of the total number of included articles into the category separately for each newspaper) |
Frames in the third category |
Incidences of the most common frames in the third category (in % of the total number of included articles into the category separately for each newspaper) |
The future of the EU according to a cartoonist |
Share of population holding positive views of various foreign actors |
Share of population holding favourable opinion about actors (over time) |
Effect of main variables on foreign policy |
Average Gross Public Debt or Net Lending as a Percentage Of GDP, Net of the German Level of Debt, Select Countries, 19952015 |
Average Net Government Lending as a Percentage of GDP, Absolute Level |
Average Interest Payments on Public Debt as a Percentage of GDP, Net of the German Level of Payments |
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