| | xiii | |
| | xv | |
| | xvii | |
| Preface | | xxi | |
| Acknowledgments | | xxvii | |
| Living in Two Different Worlds? The Increasing Split Between Elites and Citizens About European Integration |
| | 1 | (30) |
| | 1 | (1) |
| The French and Dutch reject the Constitution for Europe. A Shock for the political establishment |
| | 1 | (8) |
| Do parliamentary delegates represent their citizens? An analysis of the outcomes of referenda and parliamentary votes on European integration, 1972-2005 |
| | 9 | (9) |
| Pride and fears about European integration among elites and citizens |
| | 18 | (13) |
| | 30 | (1) |
| European Integration as an Elite Process: Theoretical Approach |
| | 31 | (27) |
| | 31 | (1) |
| | 31 | (7) |
| European integration as an elite process |
| | 38 | (9) |
| Ideas, values, and the role of the intellectuals in the process of European integration |
| | 47 | (5) |
| The historical-situational context of the origin and further expansion of the EU |
| | 52 | (6) |
| | 56 | (2) |
| The Political Elites: How Integration Has Opened Up a Wide Field of New Political Careers |
| | 58 | (51) |
| | 58 | (1) |
| How the charismatic founders of the EEC left their mark on later integration |
| | 58 | (11) |
| Changes in the structures and workings of politics in western Europe, 1950-2000 |
| | 69 | (10) |
| The new European political elites: I. Elected politicians |
| | 79 | (15) |
| The new European political elites: II. Political bureaucrats and professionals |
| | 94 | (15) |
| | 107 | (2) |
| The Economic Elites: Between Global Capitalism and European (Neo-) Corporatism |
| | 109 | (43) |
| | 109 | (1) |
| The European economic elites and their role in the integration process |
| | 110 | (5) |
| Does the EU constitute a closely integrated economic community? |
| | 115 | (8) |
| The role of the economic elites in the establishment and further development of integration |
| | 123 | (9) |
| A reverse redistribution: The agricultural policy of the EU |
| | 132 | (8) |
| EU enlargement toward the East: Reunification of Europe or conquest settlement of eight new member states? |
| | 140 | (12) |
| | 150 | (2) |
| The Eurocracy: The Irresistible Growth of a New and Powerful Supranational Bureaucratic Elite |
| | 152 | (47) |
| | 152 | (1) |
| Bureaucracy as an instrument of domination and the specific character of the Eurocracy |
| | 152 | (8) |
| The personnel: Size, growth and social characteristics of the Eurocracy |
| | 160 | (14) |
| Material gratifications and lifestyles: The rise of a new ``Euroelite''? |
| | 174 | (7) |
| Eurocratic processes and practices |
| | 181 | (18) |
| | 197 | (2) |
| One Union or Many? Public Views of Integration in the Different EU Member States |
| | 199 | (65) |
| | 199 | (1) |
| The integration and identity of societies and the case of the European Union |
| | 200 | (7) |
| The structural position of different countries and the attitudes of their populations toward integration: An inductive empirical typology |
| | 207 | (7) |
| The seven faces of the European Union: A sociological typology of the meaning of integration among the different nation-states and their citizens |
| | 214 | (27) |
| The European Union as a ``Community of values''? |
| | 241 | (6) |
| Legitimacy through output? The modest socio-economic success of integration and its accurate perception by the citizens |
| | 247 | (8) |
| Strategies of the elites to win the consent of the citizens for integration |
| | 255 | (9) |
| | 262 | (2) |
| The Dream of Europe: Intellectual Ideas of Integration and their ``Realization'' |
| | 264 | (49) |
| | 264 | (1) |
| The dream of Europe in history: A critical analysis of the ideas of European unification from the Abbe de Saint-Pierre (1713) until Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi (1923) |
| | 265 | (11) |
| Democracy and peace in Europe: Kant's universal dream and its political-practical relevance |
| | 276 | (7) |
| Historical visions and the ``real Europe'' |
| | 283 | (22) |
| Where have the critical intellectuals gone? |
| | 305 | (8) |
| | 312 | (1) |
| The European Union as a ``Social Community of Law:'' Proposals for Strengthening its Social and Democratic Character |
| | 313 | (48) |
| | 313 | (1) |
| Potentials and limits of the Constitution for Europe: The view of the citizens |
| | 314 | (8) |
| The EU as a ``Social Community of Law'' and its Charter of Fundamental Rights as an approach toward a Social Europe |
| | 322 | (11) |
| Enhancing of transparency and direct democracy: Consequences from the character of the EU as a consociational political system |
| | 333 | (18) |
| A proposal for the generation of a renewed ``constitutional moment'' |
| | 351 | (10) |
| | 359 | (2) |
| Notes | | 361 | (14) |
| References | | 375 | (34) |
| Name Index | | 409 | (12) |
| Subject Index | | 421 | |
