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    The Europe of Elites: A Study into the Europeanness of Europe's Political and Economic Elites

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    Contributor(s)
    Best, Heinrich (editor)
    Lengyel, György (editor)
    Verzichelli, Luca (editor)
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    OAPEN-UK
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    It has been widely acknowledged that the process of European integration and unification was started and is still pursued as an elite project, designed to put an end to debilitating conflicts and rivalries by consolidating a common power base and by pooling Europe’s economic resources. Nevertheless elites have remained the known unknowns of the European integration process. The present volume is designed to change this. Based on surveys of political and economic elites in 18 European countries, it is a comprehensive study of the visions, fears, cognitions, and values of members of national parliaments and top business leaders underlying their attitudes towards European integration. It also investigates political and economic elites’ embeddedness in transnational networks and their ability to communicate in multicultural settings. Our book strongly supports the view of an elitist character of the process of European integration on the one hand, while challenging the idea that European national elites have merged or are even merging into a coherent Eurelite on the other. As the 11 chapters of this book show, the process of European integration is much more colourful and even contradictory than concepts of a straightforward normative and structural integration suggest. In particular this process is deeply rooted in and conditional on the social and political settings in national contexts. The empirical basis for this book is provided by the data of the international IntUne project, which has for the first time created a comprehensive database combining coordinated surveys of Europe-related attitudes at the elite and general population level.
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    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33856
    Keywords
    economic elite; europeanization; european institutions; representation; europeanness; multilevel governance; european identity; political elite; european integration; european union; elite theory; european citizenship; Member state of the European Union; Supranational union
    DOI
    10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199602315.001.0001
    ISBN
    9780199602315
    OCN
    794488351
    Publisher
    Oxford University Press
    Publisher website
    https://global.oup.com/
    Publication date and place
    2012
    Grantor
    • OAPEN-UK
    Classification
    Sociology
    Political science and theory
    International institutions
    EU (European Union)
    Pages
    314
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    Relevant Wikipedia pages: Europe - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe; European integration - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_integration; European Union - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union; Europeanisation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europeanisation; Member state of the European Union - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_state_of_the_European_Union; Supranational union - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supranational_union
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    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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