European integration as an elite process: the failure of a dream?/
Max Haller.
- New York : Routledge, 2008.
- xxix, 431 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
- Routledge advances in sociology ; 40. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-407) and indexes.
Living in two different worlds? the increasing split between elites and citizens about European integration -- European integration as an elite process : theoretical approach -- The political elites : how integration has opened up a wide field of new political careers -- The economic elites : between global capitalism and European (neo-) corporatism -- The eurocracy : the irresistible growth of a new and powerful supranational bureaucratic elite -- One union or many? public views of integration in the different EU member states -- The dream of Europe : intellectual ideas of integration and their "realization" -- The European Union as a "social community of law" : proposals for strengthening its social and democratic character.
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Elite (Social sciences)--European Union countries. Supranationalism--European Union countries.
European Union countries--Politics and government. European Union countries--Economic integration.