European Integration, Processes of Change and the National Experience

Part I. European Integration Meets Historical Sociology: An Introduction

1. Comparing Processes of Change: How European Integration Can Learn from Past Experiences
Stefanie Börner, Monika Eigmüller

2. Europe as Process? On the Genealogy of a Historical-Sociological Research Programme
Rainer Schützeichel

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, 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

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Socio-Histoire and Public-Policy Rescaling Issues: Learning from Unemployment Policies in Germany (1870–1927)
Bénédicte Zimmermann

7. A Socio-Histoire of Europeanisation: Methodological Perspectives for Analysing Social Policy in a European Context
Monika Eigmüller, Nikola Tietze

8. From National to European Solidarity? The Negotiation of Redistributive Spaces
Stefanie Börner

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-Jörg 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 Bauerkämper

12. Europeanisation and Social Movements: Before and after the Great Recession
Donatella della Porta, Louisa Parks

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, European Union Politics, European Politics, Sociology, general, European Culture, Political Sociology, Social Structure, Social Inequality