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Beschreibung
This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence.

The European Union's market integration project has dramatically altered economic activity around Europe. This book presents extensive evidence on how trade has increased, jobs have been created, and European business has been reorganized. The changes in the economy have been accompanied by dramatic changes in how people from different societies interact. This book argues provocatively that these changes have produced a truly transnational-European-society. The book explores the nature of that society and its relationship to the creation of a European identity, popular culture, and politics. Much of the current political conflict around Europe can be attributed to who is and who is not involved in European society. Business owners, managers, professionals, white-collar workers, the educate
This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence.

The European Union's market integration project has dramatically altered economic activity around Europe. This book presents extensive evidence on how trade has increased, jobs have been created, and European business has been reorganized. The changes in the economy have been accompanied by dramatic changes in how people from different societies interact. This book argues provocatively that these changes have produced a truly transnational-European-society. The book explores the nature of that society and its relationship to the creation of a European identity, popular culture, and politics. Much of the current political conflict around Europe can be attributed to who is and who is not involved in European society. Business owners, managers, professionals, white-collar workers, the educate
Über den Autor
Neil Fligstein is the Class of 1939 Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California. He is the author of five books and over 50 papers. He has made scholarly contributions to the fields of organizational and economic sociology, political sociology, and the study of the European Union. His most recent books include The Architecture of Markets (Princeton University Press, 2001) and The Institutionalization of Europe (with Alec Stone Sweet and Wayne Sandholtz, Oxford University Press, 2001).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 1: The Dynamics of European Society

  • 2: Constructing Markets and Politics: The Formation of the European Union, 1958-2004

  • 3: Economic Transformation of Europe

  • 4: The Creation of Markets: The Cases of the Defense, Telecommunications, and Football Industries

  • 5: Who are the Europeans?

  • 6: What is European Society?

  • 7: The Structure of European Politics

  • 8: Conclusions

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780199580859
ISBN-10: 0199580855
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Fligstein, Neil
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Neil Fligstein
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.10.2009
Gewicht: 0,453 kg
Artikel-ID: 108621726