Routledge Advances in European Politics
About the Book Series
This series features innovative and groundbreaking theoretical and empirical research on the latest transformations within European politics. Subjects covered will be wide-ranging and include:
- both the EU and non-member states
- developments in European political institutions
- economic and monetary union
- European political cultures and identities.
Business, The State and Economic Policy: The Case of Italy
1st Edition
By G Grant Amyot
February 04, 2019
The framework sketched in this new book explains the relationship between state and capital in Italy as well as some of the major directions in macroeconomic theory. These fields encompass both Italy's entry to EMU in 1999 and the impact of Silvio Berlusconi on Italian politics and economics....
The European Union and E-Voting (Electronic Voting)
1st Edition
Edited
By Fernando Mendez, Alexander H. Trechsel
February 04, 2019
This is the first book to systematically evaluate e-voting from the wider European perspective. It focuses on the European experience, thereby raising key issues at the heart of the social sciences, legal scholarship and technology studies in a penetrating and interdisciplinary manner. It coincides...
European Enlargement across Rounds and Beyond Borders
1st Edition
Edited
By Haakon A. Ikonomou, Aurélie Andry, Rebekka Byberg
January 17, 2019
Enlargement has been an almost constant part of European integration history – going from an improvised exercise to the EU’s most developed foreign policy tool. However, neither the longevity nor the complexity of enlargement has been properly historicised. European Enlargement across Rounds and ...
Kosovo: The Politics of Identity and Space
1st Edition
By Dr Denisa Kostovicova
January 17, 2019
Kosovo: The Politics of Identity and Space explores the Albanian-Serbian confrontation after Slobodan Milosevic's rise to power and the policy of repression in Kosovo through the lens of the Kosovo education system. The argument is woven around the story of imposed ethnic segregation in Kosovo's ...
Governance and European Civil Society: Governmentality, Discourse and NGOs
1st Edition
By Acar Kutay
August 23, 2018
This book provides a critical analysis of the European Union’s approach to ‘governance’, focusing on the way in which civil society is incorporated within the EU decision-making process and arguing that it is not conducive to the democratisation of EU governance. Using a governmentality approach, ...
The European Union Diplomatic Service: Ideas, Preferences and Identities
1st Edition
By Caterina Carta
August 23, 2018
The book analyses the processes of institution and identity building of the European Union Diplomatic Service working on matters of foreign policy and external economic relations, both in Brussels and in the Commission’s Delegations across the world. The book examines what images high ranking ...
Dynamics of Political Change in Ireland: Making and Breaking a Divided Island
1st Edition
Edited
By Niall Ó Dochartaigh, Katy Hayward, Elizabeth Meehan
August 14, 2018
This book examines the interrelated dynamics of political action, ideology and state structures in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, emphasising the wider UK and European contexts in which they are nested. It makes a significant and unique contribution to wider European and ...
Switzerland in Europe: Continuity and Change in the Swiss Political Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By Christine Trampusch, André Mach
August 10, 2018
While Switzerland is well known for its specific political institutions, such as direct democracy, federalism and neutrality, or for its banking secrecy, its socio-economic institutions, which decisively contributed to its prosperity, remain relatively unexplored. This book gives the first ...
Poland Within the European Union: New Awkward Partner or New Heart of Europe?
1st Edition
By Aleks Szczerbiak
August 09, 2018
This book examines the first five years of Polish EU membership. The combination of Poland’s potential power as a major, and possibly controversial, player in both the region and Europe as a whole, and the apparent salience of Euroscepticism in domestic electoral politics at the core of the Polish ...
Discretion in the Welfare State: Social Rights and Professional Judgment
1st Edition
By Anders Molander
July 24, 2018
Welfare state professionals decide or establish premises as to whom will receive what, in what manner, when and how much, and when enough is enough. They control who passes through the gates of the welfare state. This book provides an in-depth understanding of the phenomenon of discretion. It shows...
Personal Diplomacy in the EU: Political Leadership and Critical Junctures of European Integration
1st Edition
By Roland Vogt
May 11, 2018
At a time when the economic troubles and bailouts of Greece and other European economies are casting significant doubt on the future viability of the Eurozone and the EU, it is crucial to examine the origins of the political will and leadership that is necessary to move the integration process ...
Iceland’s Financial Crisis: The Politics of Blame, Protest, and Reconstruction
1st Edition
Edited
By Valur Ingimundarson, Philippe Urfalino, Irma Erlingsdóttir
April 25, 2018
Being the first casualty of the international financial crisis, Iceland was, in many ways, turned into a laboratory when it came to responding to one of the largest corporate failures on record. This edited volume offers the most wide-ranging treatment of the Icelandic financial crisis and its ...