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Elements of a sociology of European integration
Trenz, Hans-Jörg - ARENA - 2008
How can sociology contribute to the understanding of the social and political transformations that are affecting contemporary Europe? The article proposes that sociological accounts of European integration should focus around the basic problem of internal differentiation and external adaptation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040207
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How the enlargement challenges the institutions - or the existence - of the European Economic Area
Sverdrup, Ulf - ARENA - 2005
could make the legitimacy and the fulfillment of the principal aims of the EEA more difficult. First, I argue that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040421
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Reflexive Integration in Europe
Eriksen, Erik Oddvar - ARENA - 2004
Integration may occur through coercion and intergovernmental bargaining - through blackmail, tradition, functional adaptation, copying, diffusion or exit - but it may also occur through reflexive reason-giving and entrenched commitments. The usefulness of such an approach to transnational and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040453
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Contesting EU Legitimacy
Wilde, Pieter de; Trenz, Hans-Jörg; Michailidou, Asimina - ARENA - 2010
This paper analyses the prominence, content and justifications of Euroscepticism as a form of EU legitimacy … contestation, mediation and formation of public opinion in the public sphere. Our survey delivers original data on EU legitimacy …. Thirdly, we find that a primary concern in EU legitimacy contestation is democracy, especially for those evaluating EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734487
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Contesting EU Legitimacy
Wilde, Pieter de; Trenz, Hans-Jörg; Michailidou, Asimina - ARENA - 2010
This paper analyses the prominence, content and justifications of Euroscepticism as a form of EU legitimacy … contestation, mediation and formation of public opinion in the public sphere. Our survey delivers original data on EU legitimacy …. Thirdly, we find that a primary concern in EU legitimacy contestation is democracy, especially for those evaluating EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734499