The Europe of Elites: A Study into the Europeanness of Europe's Political and Economic Elites

It has been widely acknowledged that the process of European integration and unification was started and is still pursued as an elite project, designed to put an end to debilitating conflicts and rivalries by consolidating a common power base and by pooling Europe’s economic resources. Nevertheless...

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description It has been widely acknowledged that the process of European integration and unification was started and is still pursued as an elite project, designed to put an end to debilitating conflicts and rivalries by consolidating a common power base and by pooling Europe’s economic resources. Nevertheless elites have remained the known unknowns of the European integration process. The present volume is designed to change this. Based on surveys of political and economic elites in 18 European countries, it is a comprehensive study of the visions, fears, cognitions, and values of members of national parliaments and top business leaders underlying their attitudes towards European integration. It also investigates political and economic elites’ embeddedness in transnational networks and their ability to communicate in multicultural settings. Our book strongly supports the view of an elitist character of the process of European integration on the one hand, while challenging the idea that European national elites have merged or are even merging into a coherent Eurelite on the other. As the 11 chapters of this book show, the process of European integration is much more colourful and even contradictory than concepts of a straightforward normative and structural integration suggest. In particular this process is deeply rooted in and conditional on the social and political settings in national contexts. The empirical basis for this book is provided by the data of the international IntUne project, which has for the first time created a comprehensive database combining coordinated surveys of Europe-related attitudes at the elite and general population level.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-359382025-01-27T00:43:12Z The Europe of Elites: A Study into the Europeanness of Europe's Political and Economic Elites Best, Heinrich Lengyel, György Verzichelli, Luca economic elite europeanization european institutions representation europeanness multilevel governance european identity political elite european integration european union elite theory european citizenship Member state of the European Union Supranational union thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations::JPSN International institutions thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1Q Other geographical groupings: Oceans and seas, historical, political etc::1QF Political, socio-economic, cultural and strategic groupings::1QFE EU (European Union) It has been widely acknowledged that the process of European integration and unification was started and is still pursued as an elite project, designed to put an end to debilitating conflicts and rivalries by consolidating a common power base and by pooling Europe’s economic resources. Nevertheless elites have remained the known unknowns of the European integration process. The present volume is designed to change this. Based on surveys of political and economic elites in 18 European countries, it is a comprehensive study of the visions, fears, cognitions, and values of members of national parliaments and top business leaders underlying their attitudes towards European integration. It also investigates political and economic elites’ embeddedness in transnational networks and their ability to communicate in multicultural settings. Our book strongly supports the view of an elitist character of the process of European integration on the one hand, while challenging the idea that European national elites have merged or are even merging into a coherent Eurelite on the other. As the 11 chapters of this book show, the process of European integration is much more colourful and even contradictory than concepts of a straightforward normative and structural integration suggest. In particular this process is deeply rooted in and conditional on the social and political settings in national contexts. The empirical basis for this book is provided by the data of the international IntUne project, which has for the first time created a comprehensive database combining coordinated surveys of Europe-related attitudes at the elite and general population level. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2013-12-31 23:55:55 2018-10-03 09:09:28 2020-04-01T14:58:39Z 2012 book 453477 OCN: 794488351 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33856 9780199602315 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35938 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33856/1/453477.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33856/1/453477.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33856/1/453477.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33856/1/453477.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33856/1/453477.pdf Oxford University Press 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199602315.001.0001 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199602315.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 OAPEN-UK 9780199602315 OAPEN-UK 314 open access
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elite theory
european citizenship
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The Europe of Elites: A Study into the Europeanness of Europe's Political and Economic Elites
title The Europe of Elites: A Study into the Europeanness of Europe's Political and Economic Elites
title_full The Europe of Elites: A Study into the Europeanness of Europe's Political and Economic Elites
title_fullStr The Europe of Elites: A Study into the Europeanness of Europe's Political and Economic Elites
title_full_unstemmed The Europe of Elites: A Study into the Europeanness of Europe's Political and Economic Elites
title_short The Europe of Elites: A Study into the Europeanness of Europe's Political and Economic Elites
title_sort europe of elites a study into the europeanness of europe s political and economic elites
topic economic elite
europeanization
european institutions
representation
europeanness
multilevel governance
european identity
political elite
european integration
european union
elite theory
european citizenship
Member state of the European Union
Supranational union
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations::JPSN International institutions
thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1Q Other geographical groupings: Oceans and seas, historical, political etc::1QF Political, socio-economic, cultural and strategic groupings::1QFE EU (European Union)
topic_facet economic elite
europeanization
european institutions
representation
europeanness
multilevel governance
european identity
political elite
european integration
european union
elite theory
european citizenship
Member state of the European Union
Supranational union
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations::JPSN International institutions
thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1Q Other geographical groupings: Oceans and seas, historical, political etc::1QF Political, socio-economic, cultural and strategic groupings::1QFE EU (European Union)
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