<p>This book focuses on the historical configuration of the territorial borders and functional boundaries of the European nation state. It presents integration as a process of boundary transcendence, redefinition, shift, and change that fundamentally alters the nature of the European states. Its core concern lies in the relationship between the specific institutional design of the new Brussels centre, the boundary redefinitions that result from its political production, and, finally, the consequences of these two elements on established and developing national European political structures. Integration is examined as a new historical phase in the development of Europe, characterized by a powerful trend toward legal, economic, and cultural de-differentiation after the five-century process of differentiation that led to the European system of nation states. Considering the EU as the formation of an enlarged territorial system, this work recovers some of the classic issues of political modernization theory: Is the EU an attempt at state formation? Is it an attempt at centre formation without nation building? Is it a process of centre formation without democratization? This work also seeks to sharpen the conceptual tools currently available to deal with processes of territorial enlargement and unification. It develops a theoretical framework for political structuring beyond the nation state, capable of linking all aspects of EU integration (inter-governmentalism, definition of rights, the "constitutionalization" of treaties, the tensions between the new territorial hierarchy and the nation states, etc) The book adopts a "holistic" approach to integration, in the form of a theory from which hypotheses can be generated (even if it is not possible to test all of its components) This theoretical framework has three principal aims: to overcome a rigid distinction between domestic politics and international relations;</p>

Restructuring Europe: Centre Formation, System Building, and Political Structuring between the Nation State and the European Union

History

Bartolini, Stefano

Europe

Oxford University Press

This latest work by one of the Europe's foremost political scientists presents a radically new theory of European integration. Focusing on the historical configuration of the European nation-states, Bartolini traces the trajectories of modern-day European integration, situating it as a new historical phase in the development of Europe. This book answers key issues, such as: Is the EU an attempt at state formation? Is it an attempt at centre formation without nation building? Is it a proces of centre formation without democratization?

Legal Theory & Systems

The Political Mobilization of the European Left, 1860–1980: The Class Cleavage (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

In an in-depth comparative analysis, Stefano Bartolini studies the history of socialism and working-class politics in Western Europe. While examining the social contexts, organizational structures, and political developments of thirteen socialist experiences from the 1860s to the 1980s, he reconstructs the steps through which social conflict was translated and structured into an opposition, as well as how it developed its different organizational and ideological forms, and how it managed more or less successfully to mobilize its reference groups politically.

Pol Mobilzatn Europe Left 1860-1980 (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

Business & Money

Economics

Cambridge University Press

The authors examine patterns of electoral persistence and change in Western Europe between 1885 and 1985, assessing what these patterns indicate about the persistence of traditional cleavages and how they vary according to political, institutional and social factors.

Identity, Competition and Electoral Availability: The Stabilisation of European Electorates 1885-1985

Mair,Peter

The question of whether Western party systems were becoming more unstable and electorates more volatile had already become central to the study of modern European by the end of the 1970s. Much of the literature at the time stressed how Western Europe was experiencing a phase of party breakdown, dealignment and decay, and how traditional mass politics was in the process of transformation. In this first book-length analysis of the subject, Stefano Bartolini and Peter Mair convincingly demonstrated how this emphasis on change had been largely misconceived and misplaced. This was the first systematic and conceptually sophisticated work to bring together the study of electoral change and cleavage persistence, and has since become one of the landmark volumes in the study of electoral politics in Europe. The authors examine patterns of electoral persistence and change in Western Europe between 1885 and 1985. They assess both what these patterns indicate with regard to the persistence of traditional cleavages, particularly the class cleavage, and how these patterns vary according to political, institutional and social factors. They analyse the various patterns of competition which have characterised elections across the different European countries and in different historical periods, and how cleavages can persist and re-emerge even in the face of widespread social change. They develop a sophisticated model of aggregate electoral change, in which national electorates are conceived as being torn between the stability brought about by cultural identities and organisational structures and the stimuli for change that are provoked by party competition and institutional change. Identity, Competition and Electoral Availability was awarded the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research and is now reprinted for the first time in paperback.

Identity, Competition and Electoral Availability: The Stabilisation of European Electorates 1885-1985 (Ecpr Press Classics)

ECPR Press

<p>Stefano Bartolini argues that, despite the growth of a large theoretical literature about institutions and institutionalism over the last thirty years, the specific nature of political institutions has been relatively neglected. Political institutions have been subsumed into the broader problems of the emergence, persistence, change and functions of all types of institutions. The author defines political institutions strictly as norms and rules of 'conferral', to be distinguished from norms/rules of 'conduct' and of 'recognition'. They are those norms and rules that empower rulers, set limits to the capacity to ensure behavioural compliance, and define the proper means for achieving such compliance. This book draws logical and empirical consequences from this understanding, to distinguish different types of norms/rules, and to specify the peculiarities of those norms/rules that are 'political'. The book will appeal to researchers of political institutions in comparative politics, and in political science and political sociology more broadly.</p>

Rule-Making Rules: An Analytical Framework for Political Institutions

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Rule-Making Rules

‘Politics’ is a noun that points to a field or sphere of human activity and interaction. ‘Political’ is an adjective that usually associates with other names to qualify and specify them. Political behaviour, political institutions, political participation and political groups denote special kinds of behaviour, institutions, participation and groups whose specialty resides in their being 'political'. What does this specification refer to? This is the question that this book aims to answer. The book unpacks the 'politics' understood as the production and distribution of 'behavioural compliance,’ as opposed to the view of politics as a distribution of values, an aggregation of preferences or a solution to social dilemmas. Starting from a motivational definition of elementary political action, the endeavour proceeds to a differentiation of compliance instigations in different social fields of interaction, characterised by various levels of confinement of the actors and of monopolisation of command.

The Political

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Restructuring Europe: Centre Formation, System Building, and Political Structuring between the Nation State and the European Union

Restructuring Europe: Centre Formation, System Building, and Political Structuring between the Nation State and the European Union

Pol Mobilzatn Europe Left 1860-1980 (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

Identity, Competition and Electoral Availability: The Stabilisation of European Electorates 1885-1985

The Political Mobilization of the European Left, 1860–1980: The Class Cleavage (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

Identity, Competition and Electoral Availability: The Stabilisation of European Electorates 1885-1985 (Ecpr Press Classics)

Rule-Making Rules: An Analytical Framework for Political Institutions

Rule-Making Rules

The Political

The Political