Does European integration influence national cultures and social policies? Is Europe's
fabled cultural diversity diminishing? In this book, Paulette Kurzer examines these important …

In the wake of the Greek and Irish crises, and at a moment when solidarity between states is
hotly debated on a daily basis at EU level, it is important to understand how 'solidarity'can …

The launch of the European project in the 1950's, driven by the desire of the founding States
to create a unified political and economic space, was not intended to lead to cultural …

In more than half a century of development in the legal doctrine and practice of human
rights, cultural rights have attracted much less attention and conceptual elaboration relative …

This edited collection brings together distinguished scholars across a range of academic
disciplines to explore how the European Union engages with culture. The book examines …

This dissertation takes up developments in European Union policymaking that indicate
important shifts from an emphasis on prioritizing markets and economic arrangements to a …

The papers in this special issue of the Journal of Comparative Law on legal culture were first
delivered at a workshop held in Venice University (Ca'Foscari) 20-21 May 2010. Special …

Politicians can negotiate currency disputes, redraw national boundaries, and raise trade
tariffs but what unforeseen problems may be caused by the melding of societal boundaries …

This article examines the reactions of Finnish cultural policy to the neoliberal turn in its
societal environment. The analysis of cultural policy documents in 1990–2010 concentrates …

Legal studies react to the Union's social legitimacy deficit either by funnelling the problem to
empirical sociology (accompanied by the familiar call for more transparency and …