Restructuring Europe: Centre Formation, System Building, and Political Structuring between the Nation State and the European Union

Contents......Page 20
List of Figures......Page 24
List of Tables......Page 25
List of Abbreviations......Page 27
Introduction......Page 30
Exit......Page 33
Boundary......Page 41
Hierarchy and centre formation......Page 53
Loyalty and system building......Page 60
Voice and political structuring......Page 65
Exit/entry, boundary building and political structuring......Page 76
Conclusions: the micro–macro framework......Page 82
Introduction: large-scale territorial differentiation and retrenchment......Page 85
State building (Force–coercion)......Page 89
Capitalism development (Economy)......Page 100
Nation building (Cultural retrenchment/expansion)......Page 110
Democratization......Page 118
Social sharing......Page 133
Conclusions: the political structuring of the European nation-state......Page 138
The historical constellation......Page 145
Centre formation......Page 151
Territorial expansion and weak territoriality......Page 156
Competence accretion......Page 161
Bureaucratic development......Page 165
Centrally administered legal system......Page 170
Competence distribution......Page 177
Unusual ‘constitutionalization’......Page 189
Uncertain legitimation......Page 194
Conclusions......Page 204
Introduction: negative and positive integration versus boundary building and removing......Page 206
The economic boundary......Page 208
The coercion boundary......Page 228
System building: cultural identity, political rights and social sharing......Page 240
Conclusions: the boundary configuration of the EU......Page 270
Introduction: three structures of political representation: territorial, corporate, and electoral......Page 277
Centre–periphery structures......Page 281
Corporate Structures......Page 310
6. Electoral Representation in Loosely Bounded Territories: Mass Politics in the EU?......Page 338
The background of electoral instability and the impact of European integration......Page 339
National parties’ attitudes toward the EU: ‘geopolitical’, ‘partisan’, ‘genetic’ and ‘institutional’ models......Page 350
The multilevel party system......Page 355
Europarties and the mass public......Page 369
Conclusions: electoral representation between national and European arenas......Page 383
European integration in historical perspective: the sixth developmental process of the European nation-state......Page 392
European integration in analytical perspective: the macro and micro consequences of boundary transcendence......Page 405
The political destructuring of the nation-state......Page 409
Political restructuring of the Union?......Page 415
Conclusions: democratizing without political structuring?......Page 434
E......Page 442
P......Page 443
W......Page 444