Description
An examination of European political transformation which aims to analyze social and political change within the European Community, and to investigate the implications of a changing institutional framework within a disaggregated Eastern Europe. This book is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in political sociology and politics as well as relevant libraries and academics. It should have significant appeal to researchers and students in European studies and others with an interest in European integration.
Table of Contents
Contributors, Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1 European countries in a post-national era, 2 The European Community, 3 Harmonization and the art of European government, 4 Theses on a post-military Europe, 5 Changing attitudes in the European Community, 6 Support for new social movements in five western European countries, 7 Environmentalism in Europe: an east-west comparison, 8 Order, crisis and social movements in the transition from state socialism, 9 Intellectuals and democratization in Hungary, 10 State and society in Poland, 11 Some thoughts on trust, collective identity, and the transition from state socialism, Index
