EU Civil Society

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Thinking Relationally: Questions, Themes and Perspectives for the Study of EU Civil Society

   1. Thinking Relationally: Questions, Themes and Perspectives for the Study of EU Civil Society

      • Håkan Johansson, Sara Kalm

      Pages 1-20

3. Trends, Interactions and Positions within Platforms of CSOs

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Changes in the Field of EU Civil Society Organisations: Institutionalisation, Differentiation and Challengers

      • Carlo Ruzza

      Pages 23-42

   3. Informational Capital: How It Is Developed and Used by CSOs and EU Institutions

      • Stefan Bernhard

      Pages 43-60

   4. Competing Capital Logics in the Field of EU-Level CSOs: ‘Autonomy from’ or ‘Interconnectedness with’ the EU?

      • Håkan Johansson, Jayeon Lee

      Pages 61-80

   5. From Coalition to Community: Collective Identity Formation in the Social Platform

      • Pauline Cullen

      Pages 81-97

   6. Exploring Competition and Cooperation among EU-Based International Solidarity Civil Society Organisations: The Relevance of Values, Resources and External Support

      • Rosa Sanchez Salgado

      Pages 98-116

4. Membership and Identity Struggles within and between EU-Level CSOs

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. Conflict and Cooperation: Interactions among EU-Level Civil Society Organisations in the Field of Gender Equality

      • Ylva Stubbergaard

      Pages 119-136

   3. Sex Workers’ Rights Movement and the EU: Challenging the New European Prostitution Policy Model

      • Roberto Scaramuzzino, Gabriella Scaramuzzino

      Pages 137-154

   4. The Formation of an EU-Based CSO: A Case Study of the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants

      • Denis Frank

      Pages 155-172

5. The European Citizens’ Initiative: A New Arena for Civil Society Activism?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173

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   2. The Effect of the European Citizens’ Initiative in the Field of European Civil Society

      • Luis Bouza García

      Pages 175-192

   3. Civil Dialogue and the Citizens’ Initiative: Accounting for Collaboration and Competition Using the Advocacy Coalition Framework and the Strategic Action Field

      • Justin Greenwood

      Pages 193-209

   4. The European Citizens’ Initiative Stage: A Snapshot of the Cast and Their Acts

      • Elsa Hedling, Anna Meeuwisse

      Pages 210-228

   5. Fields with Fields? Concluding Remarks on the Relationships between the European Civil Society and the EU Bureaucratic Fields

      • Didier Georgakakis

      Pages 229-242

6. Back Matter

   Pages 243-273

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This volume provides a novel and relational sociological approach to the study of EU civil society. It focuses on the interactions and interrelations between civil society actors and the forms of capital that structure the fields and sub-fields of EU civil society, through new and important empirical studies on organized EU civil society.

• Civil society
• relational sociology
• European Union
• social policy
• network theory
• coalition theory
• field theory
• capital
• conflict
• EU Institutions
• European Union (EU)
• gender
• identity
• Institution
• interaction
• Nation
• organization
• Policy
• society
• sociology

“Interested readers and researchers in the field of EU civil society will find detailed information about methodological issues and data collection. … In general, the volume provides detailed consideration of the conflicts and risks which civil society organisations face in the lobby-based Brussels context.” (Andi Hoxhaj, Journal of Contemporary European Research, Vol.14 (02), 2018)

“There are many good reasons for recommending this volume. It departs from the mainstream of European civil societyresearch; it takes a new and fresh theoretical approach to the analysis of a complex phenomenon; it provides a bunch of interesting case studies which are thoroughly researched and well documented.” (Annette Zimmer, Voluntas, Vol. 28, 2017)

'This volume is a fantastically innovative contribution to the study of EU civil society. The relational approach covering the theoretical perspectives of the network, coalition and field model focuses on cooperation and competition so decisive for the constitution and performance of CSOs. The entire book is a 'must read' not only because of the empirical richness of the individual contributions but because the common relational approach provides a comprehensive view of the structure and dynamics of EU civil society." - Beate Kohler-Koch, University of Mannheim, Germany

'EU Civil Society casts new lights on the phenomenon of EU civil society. Whereas previous research has focused on the role of EU policies in fostering EU civil society (top-down perspective), on Civil Society organizations tactics and strategies (bottom-up perspective), or on the democratic qualities of EU Civil Society (democratic perspective), this book adopts a relational perspective illuminating the cooperative and conflict-laded interactions taking place between Civil Society actors at the European level. Mobilizing a set of theoretical models (network, coalition, field), the contributions to this volume investigate empirically different types of interactions between Civil Society actors and with the European institutions in a variety of policy-fields. This book will be a major resource for all those interested in the EU Civil Society and its dynamic evolution.' - Bernard Enjolras, Institute for Social Research, Norway

• Lund University, Sweden

  Håkan Johansson, Sara Kalm

Stefan Bernhard, Institute for Employment Research, Germany Luis Bouza García, College of Europe, Belgium Pauline Cullen, Maynooth University, Ireland Denis Frank, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Didier Georgakakis, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France, and College of Europe, Belgium Justin Greenwood, Robert Gordon University, UK and College of Europe, Belgium Elsa Hedling, Lund University, Sweden Jayeon Lee, Lund University, Sweden Anna Meeuwisse, Lund University, Sweden Carlo Ruzza, University of Trento, Italy Rosa Sanchez Salgado, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Gabriella Scaramuzzino, Lund University, Sweden Roberto Scaramuzzino, Lund University, Sweden Ylva Stubbergaard, Lund University, Sweden

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