European Integration, Processes of Change and the National Experience

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