Reconfiguring European States in Crisis

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.

Patrick Le Gales, CNRS Research Professor of Sociology and Politics, Sciences Po, Paris,Desmond King, Andrew W Mellon Professor of American Government, the University of Oxford and Fellow, Nuffield College

Patrick Le Gales, is CNRS Research Professor of Sociology and Politics, at Sciences Po Paris, Centre d'etudes europeennes and founding Dean of Sciences Po Urban School. His many publications include: European Cities (OUP 2002), The New Labour Experiment (with Florence Faucher, Stanford UP 2010), and Globalising Minds, Roots in the City (with Alberta Andreotti & Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes, Wiley 2015).


Desmond King is Andrew W Mellon Professor of American Government at the University of Oxford and Fellow, Nuffield College, having previously been a Fellow and Professor of Politics at St John's College, Oxford of which he is now an Emeritus Fellow, and a Lecturer in Government at the London School of Economics. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His many publications include Separate and Unequal: African Americans and the US Federal Government (OUP 2007), In the Name of Liberalism: Illiberal Social Policy in Britain and the USA (OUP 1999), Making Americans: Immigration, Race and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy (Harvard UP 2002), and most recently Fed Power: How Finance Wins (with Lawrence Jacobs, OUP 2016).

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