Title Beyond the nation state : parties in the era of European integration / David Hanley

Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 236 pages) Contents Introduction. Parties and transnationalism -- Party, nation-state and beyond: some general considerations -- From the internationals to the transnational party: a historical perspective -- Social democracy : riding the tide of globalisation -- Christian democracy and its allies: identity and the logic of numbers -- Liberals and democrats: in the shadow of the heavyweights? -- The communists and allies: still fighting for change -- Defending the periphery, protecting the environment: the regionalist family and the greens -- Sovereignists, sceptics and populists: as transnational as the rest? -- National parties, party families and their roads to transnationalism; a comparative conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index Summary Why do political party families, big and small, without exception, engage increasingly in transnational collaboration, in arenas like the European Parliament and beyond? What do they hope to gain from it, and what might they fear losing? Beyond the Nation State looks below the usual rhetoric of party families to trace some deep-lying historical processes and patterns. Experiences can vary within and between families, but the overall patterns are clear. Based on numerous interviews and studies of national parties, the book shows these parties to be reluctant participants in a process of party integration which they may well have to take further, despite their doubts Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-227) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Political parties -- European Union countries European federation. Political parties. Political ideologies. Political structures: democracy. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Parties. Politics and Government. European federation Political parties Politics and government Europäische Integration Transnationale Politik Partei SUBJECT European Union countries -- Politics and government Subject European Union countries Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230593565 0230593569

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