The Evolution of Intermediary Institutions in Europe: From Corporatism to Governance

Product Description

This book investigates the consecutive shifts between three types of intermediary institutions in the European context: Corporatist, Neo-corporatist and Governance institutions. It does so by combining insights from European Political Economy; European Integration and governance studies; and, socio-legal studies in the European context.

Review

"Hartmann and Kjaer have assembled a remarkable set of essays on one of the most profoundly important elements of societal transformation of this century as it affects an often neglected nexus point of law and politics. The contributions provide much needed gap filler, providing valuable insight on those important spaces between the state, the international order, and the social order." Larry Backer, Professor of Law and International Affairs, Penn State University, USA
"This collection of essays is a countermove against the damage which the law of the EU experienced during the financial crisis. Seemingly paradoxically, this rescue operation is undertaken not by lawyers who tend to oscillate between the normalisation of Europe's emergency and voluntaristic propositions. It gains its encouraging strength from the exploration of long-term intra- and inter-societal transformations to which the law has to respond if it is ever to regain ordering legitimacy." Christian Joerges, Professor of Law and Society, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany

About the Author

Alfons Bora, Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany Hubert Buch-Hansen, Associate Professor, Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Alexander Ebner, Professor of Political Economy and Economic Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Sabine Frerichs, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and adjunct Professor in Sociology of Law, University of Helsinki, Finland Gorm Harste, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark Eva Hartmann, Assistant Professor in Sociology and Political Economy, Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark Bob Jessop, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK Poul F. Kjaer, Professor, Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Richard Münch, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Bamberg, Germany Grahame F. Thompson, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, Open University, UK Chris Thornhill, Professor of Law, University of Manchester, UK Gert Verschraegen, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Antwerp, Belgium Angela Wigger, Lecturer in Global Political Economy, Political Science Department, Radboud University, Netherlands