EU Civil Society: Patterns of Cooperation, Competition and Conflict

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Thinking Relationally: Questions, Themes and Perspectives for the Study of EU Civil Society....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Changes in the Field of EU Civil Society Organisations: Institutionalisation, Differentiation and Challengers....Pages 23-42
Informational Capital: How It Is Developed and Used by CSOs and EU Institutions....Pages 43-60
Competing Capital Logics in the Field of EU-Level CSOs: ‘Autonomy from’ or ‘Interconnectedness with’ the EU?....Pages 61-80
From Coalition to Community: Collective Identity Formation in the Social Platform....Pages 81-97
Exploring Competition and Cooperation among EU-Based International Solidarity Civil Society Organisations: The Relevance of Values, Resources and External Support....Pages 98-116
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Conflict and Cooperation: Interactions among EU-Level Civil Society Organisations in the Field of Gender Equality....Pages 119-136
Sex Workers’ Rights Movement and the EU: Challenging the New European Prostitution Policy Model....Pages 137-154
The Formation of an EU-Based CSO: A Case Study of the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants....Pages 155-172
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
The Effect of the European Citizens’ Initiative in the Field of European Civil Society....Pages 175-192
Civil Dialogue and the Citizens’ Initiative: Accounting for Collaboration and Competition Using the Advocacy Coalition Framework and the Strategic Action Field....Pages 193-209
The European Citizens’ Initiative Stage: A Snapshot of the Cast and Their Acts....Pages 210-228
Fields with Fields? Concluding Remarks on the Relationships between the European Civil Society and the EU Bureaucratic Fields....Pages 229-242
Back Matter....Pages 243-273