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.

Deepens understandings that underpin scholarly intellectual disputes about civic and political engagement and participation in Europe Presents a new typology that focuses on demands and practices of active citizenship Provides a comparative focus, by looking at the development of active citizenship in the EU and in Italy, Turkey and the UK

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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.