{"id":287,"date":"2011-01-18T13:38:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T12:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecpr-polsoc\/?p=287"},"modified":"2017-11-06T10:40:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T09:40:30","slug":"a-political-sociology-of-the-european-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecpr-polsoc\/2011\/01\/a-political-sociology-of-the-european-union\/","title":{"rendered":"A political sociology of the European Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #003366\">A political sociology of the European Union. Reassessing constructivism, edited by<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003366\"> <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #003366\">Jay Rowell and Michel Mangenot, Manchester University Press, 2010<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecpr-polsoc\/files\/2011\/01\/politicalsociologyeu.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-288\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecpr-polsoc\/files\/2011\/01\/politicalsociologyeu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The study of the European Union has historically been a theoretical battleground. Since the 1990s, new theoretical directions such as neo-institutionalism, multi-level governance and constructivism have provided a new impetus. However, despite these new inroads, empirical work has often remained sociologically and empirically underspecified.This volume seeks to bridge the gap between theory and fieldwork by developing an actor-centred political sociology. In doing so, the volume engages in a critical dialogue with the constructivist framework and proposes to build on its insights through a sociological hardening centred on European actors.<\/p>\n<p>The renewal of European studies through political sociology is only useful if it generates new understandings through empirical observation. This volume seeks to take a new tack on constructivism by asking what it is that Europe constructs by looking at three areas- social spaces and professions, policy problems and policies and policy instruments such as the Eurobarometer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A political sociology of the European Union. Reassessing constructivism, edited by Jay Rowell and Michel Mangenot, Manchester University Press, 2010 The study of the European Union has historically been a theoretical battleground. Since the 1990s, new theoretical directions such as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13309],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-new-publications"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecpr-polsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecpr-polsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecpr-polsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecpr-polsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecpr-polsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecpr-polsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecpr-polsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecpr-polsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecpr-polsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}