Reconfiguring European States in Crisis

This book examines the changing nature and role of the contemporary European state, and the making of a transnational capitalist member state in Europe.

Reconfiguring European States in Crisis offers a ground-breaking analysis by some of Europe's leading political scientists, examining how the European national state and the European Union state have dealt with two sorts of changes in the last two decades. Firstly, the volume analyses the growth of performance measurement in government, the rise of new sorts of policy delivery agencies, the devolution of power to regions and cities, and the spread of neoliberal ideas in economic policy. The volume demonstrates how the rise of non-state controlled organizations and norms combine with Europeanization to reconfigure European states. Secondly, the volume focuses on how the current crises in fiscal policy, Brexit, security and terrorism, and migration through a borderless European Union have had dramatic effects on European states and will continue to do so.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

1: Patrick Le Galès and Desmond King: A Reconfigured State: European Policy States in a Globalizing World
Part 1. Changing Scales of European States
2: Christopher Bickerton: Nation-State to Member State: Trajectories of State Transformation and Re-Composition in Europe
3: Philipp Genschel and Bernhard Zangl: The Rise of Non-State Authority and the Transformation of the State
4: Sabino Cassese: From the Nation State to the Global Polity
5: Hendrik Spruyt: Unbundling Sovereign Rights through Incomplete Contracting: Empowering European Transnational Networks beyond the State
6: Michael Keating: The Territorial State
Part 2. Capitalism Against the State?
7: Wolfgang Streeck: A New Regime: The Consolidation State
8: Laszlo Bruszt and Visnja Vukov: European Integration and the Evolution of Economic State Capacities in Southern and Eastern Europe
9: Mark Thatcher: The Reshaping of Economic Markets and the State
10: Cornelia Woll: State Capacity in Financ ial Times
11: Erik Jones and Gregory W. Fuller: Financial Integration and the National State
12: Colin Crouch: The Limitations of the Limited State: Neoliberal Theory Meets the Real World
Part 3. Rationalization and Knowledge
13: Philippe Bezes: The Neo-Managerial Turn of Bureaucratic States
14: Niamh Hardiman: Tracking the State in a Liberal Democracy
15: Jenny Andersson: Governing Futures: States and the Management of Expectations
16: Benjamin Lemoine: Measuring and Transforming the State: Finance-inspired Debt Metrics and the Fragile Economic and Social Order
17: Bruno Palier and Colin Hay: The Reconfiguration of the Welfare State in Europe: Paying its Way in an Age of Austerity
Part 4. Security and Democracy
18: Fabien Jobard: Transformation of State's Use of Force in Europe
19: Anand Menon: Defence Policy and the European State: Insights from American Experience
20: Olivier Borraz and Lydie Cabane: States of Crisis
21: Donatella Della Po rta: Social Movements, Democracy and the State
22: Desmond King, Patrick Le Galès, and Tommaso Vitale: Assimilation, Security, and Borders in the Member States
23: Desmond King and Patrick Le Galès: Conclusion: The Making of a Transnational, Capitalist Policy Member State