Stefanie Borner

European Integration, Processes of Change and the National Experience - Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology Stefanie Borner

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: Stefanie Borner is Research Associate at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany. Her research interests include the sociology of social policy, social theory, European integration and historical sociology. Monika Eigmuller is Head of the Research Group 'Social Europe' at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. Her research interests lie in the sociology of European integration, social policy and welfare state research and historical sociology."Table of Contents: PrefacePART I: EUROPEAN INTEGRATION MEETS HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION1. Comparing Processes of Change: How European Integration Can Learn from Past Experiences; Stefanie Borner and Monika Eigmuller2. Europe as Process? On the Genealogy of a Historical-Sociological Research Programme; Rainer SchutzeichelPART II: COMPARING PROCESSES OF STATE BUILDING3. The European Union in Historical Comparison: Achieving Scale by Accommodating Diversity; Gary Marks4. Rome under Seven Hills? An Archaeology of European Private Law; Sabine Frerichs and Teemu Juutilainen5. Building Culture: The Architecture and Geography of Governance in the European Union; Kathleen R. McNamaraPART III: NATIONAL SOCIAL POLICY MAKING AND EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES6. Socio-histoire and Public-Policy Rescaling Issues: Learning from Unemployment Policies in Germany (1870 1927); Benedicte Zimmermann7. A socio-histoire of Europeanisation: Methodological Perspectives for Analysing Social Policy in a European Context; Monika Eigmuller and Nikola Tietze8. From National to European Solidarity? The Negotiation of Redistributive Spaces; Stefanie Borner9. Comparing Contexts. Preconditions for the Rise of a Genuinely European Social Policy; Georg VobrubaPART IV: CONSTRUCTING SOCIETIES NOW AND THEN10. The Saga of Europeanisation: On the Narrative Construction of a European Society; Hans-Jorg Trenz11. European Integration by Cross-Border Exchange. Actors in Transnational and National Spaces in the Emerging Civil Society since the late Eighteenth Century; Arnd Bauerkamper12. Europeanisation and Social Movements: Before and after the Great Recession; Donatella della Porta and Louisa Parks "