The State of the European Union

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Economic and Democratic Governance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Fault Lines in European Integration. An Introduction

      • Stefanie Wöhl, Elisabeth Springler, Martin Pachel, Bernhard Zeilinger

      Pages 3-21

   3. Between the Normal State and an Exceptional State Form: Authoritarian Competitive Statism and the Crisis of Democracy in Europe

      • Lukas Oberndorfer

      Pages 23-44

   4. Losing Grounds: Masculine-Authoritarian Reconfigurations of Power Structures in the European Union

      • Elisabeth Klatzer, Christa Schlager

      Pages 45-75

3. Right Wing Populism and Extreme Right Parties

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. The Normalization of Right-Wing Populist Discourses and Politics in Austria

      • Karin Liebhart

      Pages 79-101

   3. Extreme Right-Wing Parties in and Against Europe. A Systematizing Comparison

      • Samuel Salzborn

      Pages 103-130

4. Financialization and Militarization

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131

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   2. European Crisis Management and the Politics of Financialization

      • Hans-Jürgen Bieling, Simon Guntrum

      Pages 133-154

   3. The Financialization of the Housing Market in Austria and Ireland

      • Elisabeth Springler, Stefanie Wöhl

      Pages 155-173

   4. The EU as an International Player: Promoting Stability and Development?

      • Johannes Jäger, Thomas Roithner

      Pages 175-193

5. Social Exclusion, Welfare and Migration Policies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195

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   2. Tales of Fragmented Hegemony: The Disciplining of Labor, Redundant People and the Authoritarian Re-Configuration of Neoliberalism

      • Martin Pachel

      Pages 197-213

   3. Trajectories of Reforming European Welfare State Policies under the Post-2008 Socio-Economic Governance Regime

      • Bernhard Zeilinger, Christian Reiner

      Pages 215-256

   4. A Multifaceted Crisis as an Opportunity and a Risk: The EU’s Long Struggle to Reform the Dublin System for Asylum Seekers

      • Florian Trauner

      Pages 257-274

Against the backdrop of combating the financial and economic crisis in the European Union for the past decade, this volume strives to explore the manifold impacts the prevailing crisis management has on the further alignment of European Integration. The efforts targeted at overcoming the financial and economic crisis evoked far-reaching consequences on the societal, economic, and political level within European member states, which in turn challenge the institutional alignment, democratic legitimacy and economic coherence of the European Union. Taking into account current developments in the EU, the contributions presented in this volume focus on the ‘fault lines’ in the integration process, i.e. questions of policy coherence, democratic accountability, financialization, militarization, migration, gendered social and economic asymmetries as well as the rise of populist and extreme right-wing parties. The volume focuses on how these different developments come together by relating aspects of transdisciplinary research to uncover the fault lines in the European integration project in the subsequent chapters. 


Content
Economic and Democratic Governance • Right Wing Populism and Right Extreme Parties • Financialization and Militarization • Social Exclusion, Welfare and Migration Policies 


Editors
Prof. (FH) Dr. Stefanie Wöhl, University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna. 


Prof. (FH) Dr. Elisabeth Springler, University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna. 


Mag. Martin Pachel, University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna. 


Dr. Bernhard Zeilinger, University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna.

• Austerity
• Financial Market
• Capitalism
• Populism
• Extremism
• Governance
• Gender
• european union politics

• University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  Stefanie Wöhl, Elisabeth Springler, Martin Pachel, Bernhard Zeilinger

Prof. (FH) Dr. Stefanie Wöhl, University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna. 


Prof. (FH) Dr. Elisabeth Springler, University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna. 


Mag. Martin Pachel, University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna. 


Dr. Bernhard Zeilinger, University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna.

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