Coping with Crisis: Europes Challenges and Strategies
How has the economic and financial crisis that started in 2007 affected European integration? Observers have been speculating about whether the crisis will ultimately lead to a strengthening or weakening of the European Union. This book studies the effects of the crisis on EU policy-making and institutional arrangements on one hand, and citizens EU attitudes and political parties electoral strategies on the other. It concludes that, at least in the short run, the crisis has overall created an opportunity for European integration rather than an obstacle. First, it has triggered events of proposed and actual far-reaching policy and institutional change. Second, negative effects on public opinion have not (yet) systematically translated into tendencies of stagnation or disintegration. The book brings together established scholars of European integration whose diverse research expertise contributes to an improved theoretical and empirical understanding of how the economic and financial crisis has affected EU policies, institutions and citizens.
This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of European Integration.
Jale Tosun holds a PhD in Social Science from the University of Konstanz. She is currently an Assistant Professor of International and Comparative Political Economy at the University of Heidelberg.
Anne Wetzel received her PhD at ETH Zurich and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES).
Galina Zapryanova holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the MZES.
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Coping with Crisis: Europes Challenges and Strategies
Edited by
Jale Tosun, Anne Wetzel and Galina Zapryanova
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Contents
Jale Tosun, Anne Wetzel & Galina Zapryanova
Michael W. Bauer & Stefan Becker
Daniela Braun & Markus Tausendpfund
Ben Clements, Kyriaki Nanou & Susannah Verney
Swen Hutter & Alena Kerscher
Sophie Meunier
Felix Roth, Daniel Gros & Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D.
Frank Schimmelfennig
The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of European Integration, volume 36, issue 3 (April 2014). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
Introduction: The EU in Crisis: Advancing the Debate
Jale Tosun, Anne Wetzel & Galina Zapryanova
Journal of European Integration, volume 36, issue 3 (April 2014). pp. 195211
Chapter 2
The Unexpected Winner of the Crisis: The European Commissions Strengthened Role in Economic Governance
Michael W. Bauer & Stefan Becker
Journal of European Integration, volume 36, issue 3 (April 2014). pp. 213229
Chapter 3
The Impact of the Euro Crisis on Citizens Support for the European Union
