European Integration, Processes of Change and the National Experience

Studying European integration remains a complex venture both in methodological and theoretical terms, especially when societal changes are considered equally to political and economic changes. In order to gain a better understanding of the diverse processes of European integration, this volume provides a new perspective comparing past experiences of change to current transitional moments at the European level using a unique inter-temporal methodological approach. This new approach aims for a historically informed understanding of European integration that does not simply reproduce national categories.

In focusing on changing political, judicial and economic order, as well as on the social dimensions, European Integration, Processes of Change and the National Experience addresses key questions about European society, integration in the EU and social change. The collection reveals the social construction of emergent polities and societies and provides new methods for confronting the theoretical puzzles of the European Union.

Stefanie Börner is Research Associate at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany. Her research interests include the sociology of social policy, social theory, European integration and historical sociology.

Monika Eigmüller is Head of the Research Group 'Social Europe' at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. Her research interests lie in the sociology of European integration, social policy and welfare state research and historical sociology.

Preface
PART I: EUROPEAN INTEGRATION MEETS HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION
1. Comparing Processes of Change: How European Integration Can Learn from Past Experiences; Stefanie Börner and Monika Eigmüller
2. Europe as Process? On the Genealogy of a Historical-Sociological Research Programme; Rainer Schützeichel
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); Bénédicte Zimmermann
7. A socio-histoire of Europeanisation: Methodological Perspectives for Analysing Social Policy in a European Context; Monika Eigmüller and Nikola Tietze
8. From National to European Solidarity? The Negotiation of Redistributive Spaces; Stefanie Börner
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-Jörg 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 Bauerkämper
12. Europeanisation and Social Movements: Before and after the Great Recession; Donatella della Porta and Louisa Parks