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Active Citizenship in Europe; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Contents; List of Abbreviations; List of Tables; 1 Preamble and Introduction; Introduction; The Supranational Discourse on Active Citizenship; Italy, Turkey, and the UK: Common and Diverging Patterns; Outline of the Book; 2 Insights on the Social Construction of Europe: Patterns in the Permanent State of Euro-Crisis; Introduction; Social Constructivism; Institutions as Identity Builders; Citizens' Europe: Citizenship and the Centrality of the Identity Question; Evaluating European Citizenship
Challenging the EU's Identity Building: A Permanent State of Crisis?Democratic Crisis (2005)
Reforming Policy-Making Through Communication and Citizens' Empowerment; Financial Crisis (2008-)
European Solidarity at Stake; Migration Crisis (2015-)
New Challenges in a Permanent State of Crisis; Conclusion; 3 Europeanization, Public Sphere, and Active Citizenship; Introduction; Europeanization: Ambiguities and Dynamics; Multilevel Governance and Networks of Interest; Empirical Research on the European Public Sphere and Civil Society: Researching Patterns of Europeanization
Civil Society as a Key Actor in the Public Sphere: Segmented Publics, Inclusion, and ExclusionMethodology; Empirical Research; Research Design; Levels of Analysis and Research Questions; Conclusion; 4 Active Citizenship and Its Components; Introduction; The Emergence of Active Citizenship in Political and Scholarly Debates; Methodological Challenges in the Study of Active Citizenship; Active Citizenship as a Practice; Active Citizenship as a Demand; Components of Active Citizenship; Civic and Political Components; Civic Engagement; Pre-Political Elements: Political Engagement
Civic and Political ParticipationDiscussing Challenges and Expectations; Conclusion; 5 Active Citizenship: Policy Developments at the EU Level; Introduction; Institutional Responses to the Democratic Crisis; The Rude Awakening: Stimulating Practices of Civic and Political Engagement; Deficit of Communication or Deficit of Democracy?; Empowering Civil Society in Policy-Making Through Structured Dialogue; Active Citizenship as a Practice: Challenges Across the Financial and Migration Crises; Obstacles to Civic and Political Participation; Empowerment and Integration
Social Problems and Policy Intervention in the Financial and Migration CrisesConclusion; 6 Engagement and Participation: Opportunities and Challenges for the Organized Civil Society in the EU; Introduction; Evaluating the Approach of the European Commission; Networking the EU: Governance and Representation; The European Commission's Strategy for Democracy: A One Off-Road Show?; Influence on Agenda Setting: Means of Participation; Disadvantaged Groups and Demands of Active Citizenship; The Struggle to Enhance Engagement and Participation; Empowerment, Its Challenges, and Social Inclusion
Challenging the EU's Identity Building: A Permanent State of Crisis?Democratic Crisis (2005)
Reforming Policy-Making Through Communication and Citizens' Empowerment; Financial Crisis (2008-)
European Solidarity at Stake; Migration Crisis (2015-)
New Challenges in a Permanent State of Crisis; Conclusion; 3 Europeanization, Public Sphere, and Active Citizenship; Introduction; Europeanization: Ambiguities and Dynamics; Multilevel Governance and Networks of Interest; Empirical Research on the European Public Sphere and Civil Society: Researching Patterns of Europeanization
Civil Society as a Key Actor in the Public Sphere: Segmented Publics, Inclusion, and ExclusionMethodology; Empirical Research; Research Design; Levels of Analysis and Research Questions; Conclusion; 4 Active Citizenship and Its Components; Introduction; The Emergence of Active Citizenship in Political and Scholarly Debates; Methodological Challenges in the Study of Active Citizenship; Active Citizenship as a Practice; Active Citizenship as a Demand; Components of Active Citizenship; Civic and Political Components; Civic Engagement; Pre-Political Elements: Political Engagement
Civic and Political ParticipationDiscussing Challenges and Expectations; Conclusion; 5 Active Citizenship: Policy Developments at the EU Level; Introduction; Institutional Responses to the Democratic Crisis; The Rude Awakening: Stimulating Practices of Civic and Political Engagement; Deficit of Communication or Deficit of Democracy?; Empowering Civil Society in Policy-Making Through Structured Dialogue; Active Citizenship as a Practice: Challenges Across the Financial and Migration Crises; Obstacles to Civic and Political Participation; Empowerment and Integration
Social Problems and Policy Intervention in the Financial and Migration CrisesConclusion; 6 Engagement and Participation: Opportunities and Challenges for the Organized Civil Society in the EU; Introduction; Evaluating the Approach of the European Commission; Networking the EU: Governance and Representation; The European Commission's Strategy for Democracy: A One Off-Road Show?; Influence on Agenda Setting: Means of Participation; Disadvantaged Groups and Demands of Active Citizenship; The Struggle to Enhance Engagement and Participation; Empowerment, Its Challenges, and Social Inclusion