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Author: Richard Rose
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013-04-25
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 019965476X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major new reassessment of the problems facing the European Union by one of the world's leading political scientists. The author shows exactly how the EU must adapt to the demands of representing its citizens if it is to survive at all.
Author: Jan Chovanec
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2017-11-15
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9027264775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book deals with the construction of the ‘other’ in European media at a time when the recently expanded EU is facing new political, economic and social challenges. The aim of the book is to document the diverse discursive forms of othering, ranging from differentiation to discrimination, that are directed against various ‘other Europeans’ in both institutionalized media and such non-elite semi-public contexts as discussion forums and citizen blogs. Drawing on data from British, Polish, French, Czech, Italian, Hungarian, Spanish and Estonian contexts, the individual papers investigate how various social groupings – regions, nations, ethnicities, communities, cultures – are discursively constructed as ‘outsiders’ rather than ‘insiders’, as ‘them’ rather than ‘us’. While most of the papers are grounded in linguistics and critical discourse studies, the book will also appeal to numerous other social scientists interested in the interface between language, media and social issues.
Author: Mercedes Mateo Diaz
Publisher: ECPR Press
Published: 2024-10-31
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1910259861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work discusses questions on political participation, representation and legitimacy in the European Union national parliaments. Three major empirical questions structure the book: What affects women's presence in parliaments?, Does the number of women in parliament have an effect? And are women in parliament representing women Empirical evidences show that institutional reforms need a 'minimal environment' in terms of socio-economic development so as to prove effective. As opposed to the critical mass theory, claiming that a few representatives cannot have an impact on the political outcomes, here the empirical evidences suggest that smaller groups can also influence the different components of the legislative process. The last part turns to the fundamental question of whether a parliament that is descriptively representative, i.e. in which the parliamentarians share certain characteristics with the voters, also is a substantively descriptive parliament, i.e. in which the parliamentarians mirror the voters' opinions. Evidence suggests that the electoral system's level of proportionality influences the extent to which assemblies socially and ideologically mirror their population. The book ends by advancing new hypotheses and setting up guidelines for future research.
Author: Jörg Echternkamp
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2019-01-02
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1789201276
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwenty-first-century views of historical violence have been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. Within Europe, one of the key sites for such representation has been the vast array of museums and memorials that reflect contemporary ideas of war, the roles of soldiers and civilians, and the self-perception of those who remember. This volume takes a historical perspective on museums covering the Second World War and explores how these institutions came to define political contexts and cultures of public memory in Germany, across Europe, and throughout the world.
Author: Anthony Pagden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-04-04
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780521795524
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses how a distinctive 'European' identity has grown over the centuries, especially with the EU.
Author: Lucian Leuştean
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0415685044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining religious representation at the state, transnational and institutional levels, this volume demonstrates that religion is becoming an increasingly important element of the decision-making process. It provides a comprehensive analysis of religious representation in the European Union that will be of great interest to students and scholars of European politics, sociology of religion and international relations.
Author: Simona Piattoni
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0198716273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume seeks to answer the question 'Which institutional architecture for which kind of democracy for the EU?' and discusses a series of institutional architectures in light of the democratic quality of the processes and decisions generated by them.
Author: Eija Ventola
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9783823349440
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Rose
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-04-22
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 3030441172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explains how citizens are using referendums to challenge decisions taken by the European Union. The opening chapters compare the two chief institutions of electoral democracy: parliamentary elections to decide who governs, and referendums to decide policies. The EU relies on international treaties for its authority to make policies. Chapters analysing referendum voting on Europe in Britain, Greece and the Netherlands show that cultural values can have a stronger influence than class. The book uses Brexit – the British referendum in which a majority voted for the UK leaving the European Union – as the leading example of a conflict between national voters and the EU. However, taking back control of policymaking does not ensure effective policymaking when success depends not only on what the British Parliament does but also on decisions taken in Brussels, Washington and elsewhere. Boris Johnson’s electoral success is insufficient to deliver all his promises in the world beyond Brexit. The EU is challenged too, as its policies increasingly depend on what happens on other continents.
Author: Dennis J. Stanford
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0520275780
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea and introduced the distinctive stone tools of the Clovis culture. Drawing from original archaeological analysis, paleoclimatic research, and genetic studies, noted archaeologists Dennis J. Stanford and Bruce A. Bradley challenge that narrative. Their hypothesis places the technological antecedents of Clovis technology in Europe, with the culture of Solutrean people in France and Spain more than 20,000 years ago, and posits that the first Americans crossed the Atlantic by boat and arrived earlier than previously thought."--Back cover.
