1st Edition

National Political Elites, European Integration and the Eurozone Crisis

Edited By Nicolò Conti, Borbála Göncz, José Real-Dato Copyright 2018
242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages 59 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 59 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The global financial, economic and sovereign debt crisis since 2008 has led to increases in political disaffection among citizens, a loss of legitimacy of political institutions, the discredit of mainstream parties and the rise of extremist or anti-system political alternatives. This comparative volume sheds greater light on this critical juncture in the recent history of the European Union... Read more

1. Introduction: The Eurocrisis and National Political Elites [Nicolò Conti, Borbála Göncz and José Real-Dato]  2. A Challenged Project: The ‘Europe of Elites’ in Crisis [Heinrich Best and Lars Vogel]  3. The Influence of the Crisis on the Perceptions of EU Institutions by National Political Elites’ [José Real-Dato, Maurizio Cotta, and Juan Rodríguez-Teruel]  4. Levels of Policy Decisions: Do Elite Preferences Differ Before and After the Crisis? [György Lengyel, Bálint Lengyel and Nicolò Conti]  5. European Integration in the View of Political Elites and Citizens: An Increasing Gap? [Lars Vogel and Borbála Göncz]  6. Individuals vs. Parties: Comparing MPs’ Positions to the Positions of Their Own Parties [Marko Kukec, Bojana Kocijan and Luca Verzichelli]  7. Resilience of Pro-European Consensus among Political Elites in Crisis: "Old" and "New" EU Member States Compared [Matej Makarovič, Matevž Tomšič]  8. The Future of the EU: Between Integration and Disintegration [Francesco Marangoni and Federico Russo]  9. Conclusion [Nicolò Conti, Borbála Göncz and José Real-Dato]

Biography

Nicolò Conti is Professor of Political Science at the Unitelma Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.



Borbála Göncz is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology and Social Policy at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary.



José Real-Dato is Associate Professor in Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Almería, Spain.