Active Citizenship in Europe Practices and Demands in the EU, Italy, Turkey and the UK

The book provides an overview of key issues in the debate concerning the emergence of active citizenship in Europe. The specific focus of enquiry is the promotion of patterns of civic and political engagement and civic and political participation by the EU and the relative responses drawn by organiz...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bee, Cristiano
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan 2017, 2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017
Series:Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Insights on the social construction of Europe: patterns in the permanent state of euro-crisis
  • 3. Europeanization, public sphere and active citizenship
  • 4. Active citizenship and its components
  • 5. Active citizenship: policy developments at the EU level
  • 6. Engagement and participation: opportunities and challenges for the organized civil society in the EU
  • 7. Active citizenship in Italy
  • 8. Active citizenship in Turkey
  • 9. Active citizenship in the UK
  • 10. Conclusion