This book offers a major new theory of global governance, explaining both its rise and what
many see as its current crisis. The author suggests that world politics is now embedded in a …

Financial crisis, economic globalization and the strengthening of neoliberal policies present
stark challenges to traditional conceptions of representative democracy. Yet, at the same …

Scholars of the European Union have analyzed the EU's legitimacy mainly in terms of two
normative criteria: output effectiveness for the people and input participation by the people …

The current literature on politicization can be separated into three groups: politicization
within national political systems, of the EU, and of international institutions. In spite of …

Social movements have an elusive power but one that is altogether real. From the French
and American revolutions to the Arab Spring, and to ethnic and terrorist movements of today …

Protest event analysis (PEA) has become a key method of social movement research over
the past decades. Oliver et al.(2003) even list the increasing use of PEA among the top four …

In Europe, as in the rest of the Western world, scholarly interest in social movements
developed with the wave of protest that, in the late sixties, shook confidence in the 'end of …

Following the failure of the Constitutional Treaty, executives of European Union (EU)
Member States and the European Commission tried to take European integration as a …

With a particular focus on their integration paths, political participation and identifications,
this book draws on large cross-national surveys of this specific population carried out …

Although politicization has become a key concept in E uropean integration studies, it is still
contested whether, when and to what extent E uropean issues have become politicized in …