The EU through Multiple Crises: Representation and Cohesion Dilemmas for a “sui generis” Polity (Routledge Advances in European Politics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 036735473X ISBN 13: 9780367354732

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

This book explores the mechanisms of political representation and accountability in the European political system, against the backdrop of multiple crises in recent years in the economic, financial, security and immigration fields, which have triggered strong tensions and centrifugal drives inside the EU and among its member states.

Exploiting a rich set of new ad hoc collected data covering elite and public opinion orientations and party positions, it investigates how the current politicization of European issues and the asymmetries among member states can challenge the sustainability of the European Union. It examines how existing policy tools were found largely unable to neutralize promptly the negative effects of these crises on the populations, economies and security of the Union and how this suggests the need to reconsider overarching theoretical frameworks and a more in-depth analysis of some crucial mechanisms of the European political system and to go beyond some of the dominant scholarly debates of the past decades.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of the European Union and more broadly to comparative European politics and international relations.

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About the Author

Maurizio Cotta is Senior Professor of Comparative Politics at the Università di Siena, Italy.

Pierangelo Isernia is Jean Monnet Professor of Culture and International Relations at the Università di Siena, Italy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 036735473X
• ISBN 13: 9780367354732
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Cotta Maurizio, Isernia Pierangelo