Europeanization in Sweden

Opportunities and Challenges for Civil Society Organizations
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78920-034-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 608 g

Reihe: Studies on Civil Society

Notwithstanding its many successes since 1945, the project of European integration currently faces major difficulties, from financial crises and mass immigration to the impending departure of the UK from the European Union. At the same time, these challenges have spurred civil society organizations within and across Europe, revealing a shared public sphere in which citizens can mobilize around refugee rights, opposition to austerity policies, and other issues. Europeanization in Sweden assembles new empirical research on how these processes have played out in one of the continent’s wealthiest nations, providing insights into whether, and how, the “Swedish model” can guide European integration.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meeuwisse, Anna

Scaramuzzino, Roberto

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Nichtregierungsorganisation (NGOs)
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables

Preface

Carlo Ruzza

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Europeanization, Civil Society, and the Swedish Welfare State

Anna Meeuwisse and Roberto Scaramuzzino

SECTION I

Chapter 1. Europeanization of and by Civil Society: Toward an Analytical Framework

Kerstin Jacobsson and Håkan Johansson

Chapter 2. The Dual Role of European Union Civil Society Organizations: Between European Union Institutions and Domestic Civil Societies

Håkan Johansson and Sara Kalm

SECTION II

Chapter 3. Europeanization of Swedish Civil Society: Motives, Activities, and Perceived Consequences

Roberto Scaramuzzino and Magnus Wennerhag

Chapter 4. Factors Explaining Swedish Civil Society Organizations’ Europeanization

Roberto Scaramuzzino and Magnus Wennerhag

Chapter 5. Access to the European Union and the Role of Domestic Embeddedness

Elsa Hedling and Anna Meeuwisse

SECTION III

Chapter 6. Europeanization through Funding

Matteo Di Placido and Roberto Scaramuzzino

Chapter 7. From Popular Movements to Social Businesses: Social Entrepreneurship as Discursive Europeanization

Ulrika Levander

Chapter 8. Varying Degrees of Europeanization in Swedish Women’s Organizations

Ylva Stubbergaard

Chapter 9. Questioning the Swedish Model or Exporting It? Identity Europeanization in the Prostitution Policy Field

Gabriella Scaramuzzino and Roberto Scaramuzzino

Chapter 10. Promoting Consumer Rights in Sweden by Lobbying and Awareness-Raising Abroad

Anna Meeuwisse and Andreas Vilhelmsson

Chapter 11. The Crisis of the European Union: Opportunity or Graveyard for a European Civil Society?

Lars Trägårdh

SECTION IV

Concluding Remarks

Anna Meeuwisse and Roberto Scaramuzzino

Appendix A: The Survey Study

Appendix B: Civil Society Organizations Types

Appendix C: Survey Question Wordings and Response Alternatives

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Meeuwisse, Anna
Anna Meeuwisse is professor of social work at Lund University, Sweden. One of her research areas concerns the changing roles of civil society organizations in the welfare state. She has been engaged in several research projects regarding civil society, advocacy, and transnational social movements in the health- and welfare area.

Scaramuzzino, Roberto
Roberto Scaramuzzino is researcher at Lund University, Sweden. His research interests include changes in the welfare and integration systems and the role of civil society organizations in different countries. He has been engaged in comparative studies of mobilization in the migration and prostitution policy fields in Sweden, and Italy, and at the EU-level. He is currently working in a research program on civil society elites in Europe.

Anna Meeuwisse is professor of social work at Lund University, Sweden. One of her research areas concerns the changing roles of civil society organizations in the welfare state. She has been engaged in several research projects regarding civil society, advocacy, and transnational social movements in the health- and welfare area.