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This book decisively advances the academic debate on politicisation beyond the state of the art. It is the first book to theorise and conceptualise ‘politicisation’ across the epistemic communities of different subdisciplines, bringing together the different strands in the debate: (international) po... More

The EU as a democratic polity has been invented: it is a product of creative and innovative actors and thinkers that conceptualized and by and by helped to realise it, from the beginning up to the present. But the concepts, ideas, and utopias of a democratic Europe differ considerably. The processes... More

What is Europe? What are the contents of the concept of Europe? And what defines European identity? Instead of only asking these classical questions, this volume also explores who asks these questions, and who is addressed with such questions. Who answers the questions, from which standpoints and fo... More

This book explicates how debates and documents can be understood, interpreted and analysed as political action. It offers the reader both a theoretical introduction and practical guidance. The authors deploy the perspective that debates are to be understood as political activity, and documents can... More

Citizenship is a core concept for the social sciences, and citizenship is also frequently interpreted, challenged and contested in different political arenas. Shaping Citizenship explores how the concept is debated and contested, defined and redefined, used and constructed by different agents, at di... More

​In light of the handover from the European Central Bank President Mario Draghi to Christine Lagarde in November 2019, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the events which unfolded since the euro area sovereign debt crisis in 2010 up until today. The book focuses on the far-reaching implicati... More

Dieses Buch untersucht theoretisch und empirisch die Zusammenh#65533;nge zwischen Multi-Level-Governance und lokaler Demokratie. Es enth#65533;lt umfassende konzeptionelle und theoretische #65533;berlegungen. Auf diesen aufbauend werden die Auswirkungen von Modellprogrammen und Politikinnovationen... More

Dieses Buch behandelt Legitimität und Legitimation von und in politischen Systemen als ein Kernthema der Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft. Damit greift es eine hochaktuelle Debatte auf. Neben der Legitimität politischer Systeme und Ordnungen wird auch  Legitimation betrachtet, d.h., die Prozesse, ... More