Active Citizenship in Europe

Practices and Demands in the EU, Italy, Turkey and the UK
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-349-68689-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 261 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 366 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology

The book provides an overview of key issues in the debate concerning the emergence of active citizenship in Europe.

The specific focus of enquiry is the promotion of patterns of civic and political engagement and civic and political participation by the EU and the relative responses drawn by organizations of the civil society operating at the supranational level and in Italy, Turkey and the UK. More specifically, it addresses key debates on the engagement and participation of organized civil society across the permanent state of euro-crisis, considering the production of policy discourses along the continuum that characterized three subsequent and interrelated emergency situations (democratic, financial and migration crises) that have hit Europe since 2005. 

Active Citizenship in Europe will be of interest to students and scholars in a range of fields, including sociology, politics, European studies and international studies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bee, Cristiano

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Kommunikation und Partizipation
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Soziologie und Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Insights on the social construction of Europe: patterns in the permanent state of euro-crisis.- 3. Europeanization, public sphere and active citizenship.- 4. Active citizenship and its components.- 5. Active citizenship: policy developments at the EU level.- 6. Engagement and participation: opportunities and challenges for the organized civil society in the EU.- 7. Active citizenship in Italy.- 8. Active citizenship in Turkey.- 9. Active citizenship in the UK.- 10. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Cristiano Bee is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of Kadir Has University in Istanbul. Previously he was a Marie Curie Fellow at the European Institute of Istanbul Bilgi University and a Lecturer in Public Policy at the University of Surrey, where he also held the Jean Monnet Module ‘Current trends in European Integration Studies: Beyond the Eurocrisis’. He has published on the development of active citizenship in Europe, European public sphere and identity.