Kenneth A. Loparo, Rosa Sanchez Salgado

Europeanizing Civil Society

How the EU Shapes Civil Society Organizations

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The European Union clearly matters for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). EU officials and European political entrepreneurs has been crucial in the promotion of funding and access opportunities, but they have been proven to have little capacity to use CSOs for their own purposes.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-35540-9
• 2014
• Seitenzahl: 277
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9781137355409
• ISBN-10: 1137355409
• Artikelnr.: 41122151

Autorenporträt

Rosa Sanchez Salgado is Assistant Professor of European Public Policy at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her research focuses on the efforts by EU institutions, above all the Commission, to shape civil society organizations, and the role of transnational networks in European governance. She is the author of How Europe Constructs Civil Society (published in French).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Europeanization of CSOs, Institutional Impact or Strategic Action? PART I: DOMESTIC CIVIL SOCIETY UNDER EU PRESSURES 2. Domestic Civil Society, National or European? 3. A European Policy for CSOs? Exploring European Political Opportunities 4. European Opportunities: Institutional Factors and Creative Usages PART II: EUROPEANIZING CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS THROUGH POLITICAL OPPORTUNITIES 5. EU funding of CSOs: From New Public to New Civic Management? 6. CSOs and Identity Building: Cheerleaders for European Integration? 7. The Europeanization of CSOs Participation: Beyond the Brussels Consensus. Conclusion: The Political Construction of European Civil Society: Legitimate and Democratic?

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Introduction 1. The Europeanization of CSOs, Institutional Impact or Strategic Action? PART I: DOMESTIC CIVIL SOCIETY UNDER EU PRESSURES 2. Domestic Civil Society, National or European? 3. A European Policy for CSOs? Exploring European Political Opportunities 4. European Opportunities: Institutional Factors and Creative Usages PART II: EUROPEANIZING CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS THROUGH POLITICAL OPPORTUNITIES 5. EU funding of CSOs: From New Public to New Civic Management? 6. CSOs and Identity Building: Cheerleaders for European Integration? 7. The Europeanization of CSOs Participation: Beyond the Brussels Consensus. Conclusion: The Political Construction of European Civil Society: Legitimate and Democratic?

Rezensionen

"A valuable contribution to the richly developing literature on the Europeanization of civil society. Combining a political sociology perspective with public policy insights, she examines CSOs primarily as dependent variables upon which the EU impacts through a number of factors such as access or funding ... . This book is an excellent resource for scholars and students working in this field." (Markus Thiel, Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 54 (1), 2016)