In order to better understand processes of European integration, this book offers a new perspective that compares past experiences of change to current transitional moments at the European level. It addresses key questions about European society, EU integration and social change to reveal the social construction of emergent polities and societies.

"The political crisis in Europe is forcing an expanded vision of the field of EU studies in which the relation of polity building to underlying social forces is re-examined. Drawing together a first class set of authors, this volume establishes new resources for answering difficult questions about the confused past, contested present, and possible futures of the European Union."

• Adrian Favell, Sciences Po, France

Autorentext
Arnd Bauerkämper, Free University of Berlin, Germany Donatella della Porta, Italian Institute of Human Sciences, Italy and European University Institute, Italy Sabine Frerichs, University of Helsinki, Finland Teemu Juutilainen, University of Helsinki, Finland Gary Marks, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA Kathleen R. McNamara, Georgetown University, USA Louisa Parks, University of Lincoln, UK Rainer Schützeichel, University of Bielefeld, Germany Nikola Tietze, Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Germany Hans-Jörg Trenz, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Georg Vobruba, University of Leipzig, Germany Bénédicte Zimmermann, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France

Inhalt
Preface PART I: EUROPEAN INTEGRATION MEETS HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION 1. Comparing Processes of Change: How European Integration Can Learn from Past Experiences; Stefanie Borner and Monika Eigmuller 2. Europe as Process? On the Genealogy of a Historical-Sociological Research Programme; Rainer Schutzeichel PART II: COMPARING PROCESSES OF STATE BUILDING 3. The European Union in Historical Comparison: Achieving Scale by Accommodating Diversity; Gary Marks 4. Rome under Seven Hills? An Archaeology of European Private Law; Sabine Frerichs and Teemu Juutilainen 5. Building Culture: The Architecture and Geography of Governance in the European Union; Kathleen R. McNamara PART III: NATIONAL SOCIAL POLICY MAKING AND EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES 6. Socio-histoire and Public-Policy Rescaling Issues: Learning from Unemployment Policies in Germany (1870-1927); Benedicte Zimmermann 7. A socio-histoire of Europeanisation: Methodological Perspectives for Analysing Social Policy in a European Context; Monika Eigmuller and Nikola Tietze 8. From National to European Solidarity? The Negotiation of Redistributive Spaces; Stefanie Borner 9. Comparing Contexts. Preconditions for the Rise of a Genuinely European Social Policy; Georg Vobruba PART IV: CONSTRUCTING SOCIETIES NOW AND THEN 10. The Saga of Europeanisation: On the Narrative Construction of a European Society; Hans-Jorg Trenz 11. European Integration by Cross-Border Exchange. Actors in Transnational and National Spaces in the Emerging Civil Society since the late Eighteenth Century; Arnd Bauerkamper 12. Europeanisation and Social Movements: Before and after the Great Recession; Donatella della Porta and Louisa Parks