Claus Offe

Europe Entrapped

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Produktbeschreibung

Today Europe finds itself in a crisis that casts a dark shadow over an entire generation. The seriousness of the crisis stems from one core political contradiction at the heart of the European project: namely, that what urgently needs to be done is also extremely unpopular and therefore virtually impossible to do democratically.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Polity Press
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 136mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 236g
• ISBN-13: 9780745687520
• ISBN-10: 0745687520
• Artikelnr.: 41750059

Autorenporträt

Claus Offe is Professor of Political Sociology at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. He is author of numerous books, including Contradictions of the Welfare State, Disorganized Capitalism, Modernity and the State, and Reflections on America: Tocqueville, Weber and Adorno in the United States.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Abbreviations
* Preface
* (1) Democratic capitalism and the European Union
* (2) The nature of the crisis
* (3) Growth, debt and doom loops
* (4) No return to square one
* (5) In search of political agency
* (6) Finalitées: Bases of identification with European integration as
a political project
* (7) The configuration of political forces and preferences
* (8) Germany's leadership role for Europe: a non-starter - Framing the
crisis
* (9) "Thin" citizenship: The ugly face of the EU system of rule
* (10) Redistribution across state borders and social divides
* Afterword