Perspectives of National Elites on European Citizenship

A South European View
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-415-68620-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: South European Society and Politics

Over the last two decades, the process of European integration has become interwoven with the theme of citizenship and the debate on the democratic quality of the EU and of its institutions has become more salient. What are the views about Europe which emerge when we interrogate the national elites of the four large South European countries, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and what is their vision of a supra-national citizenship in its different facets? Are these views sufficiently homogeneous and do they distinguish themselves from those of the rest of the European Union to the point of enabling us to talk about a "distinctive region of Europe"? Which interpretation(s) of European citizenship emerges from a systematic exploration of these opinions?

Using a set of survey and textual data collected in the framework of the IntUne project, the authors attempt to provide some original answers to these questions.

This book was published as a special issue of South European Society and Politics.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Conti, Nicolò

Cotta, Maurizio

de Almeida, Pedro Tavares

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. European Citizenship and the National Elites of Southern Europe Nicolò Conti, Maurizio Cotta and Pedro Tavares de Almeida 2. Italy: Still a Pro-European, but not a Fully Europeanised Elite? Christophe Roux and Luca Verzichelli 3. The Perception of the European Union by Political and Economic Elites in Spain Miguel Jerez Mir, José Real Dato and Rafael Vázquez García 4. Attitudes of the Portuguese Elites towards the European Union Diogo Moreira, João Pedro Ruivo, António Costa Pinto and Pedro Tavares de Almeida 5. Attitudes of Greek Parliamentarians Towards European and National Identity, Representation, and Scope of Governance Roula Nezi, Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos and Panayiota Toka 6. European Citizenship in Party Euromanifestos: Southern Europe in Comparative Perspective (1994–2004) Nicolò Conti 7. Southern Europe: A Distinctive and More Pro-European Region in the EU? Nicolò Conti, Maurizio Cotta and Pedro Tavares de Almeida

Über Autor(innen)

Nicolò Conti is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Unitelma Sapienza University of Rome and Research Fellow at the University of Siena. His main research focus is on parties and the EU.
Maurizio Cotta is Professor of Political Science at the University of Siena. His main research interests are in the field of political elites and political institutions in Europe. He is the coordinator of the EU integrated project IntUne.
Pedro Tavares de Almeida is Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His main research interests are elite recruitment, elections and state-civil society relations.