1st & 2nd Volumes of Papers from

the First European Conference of Sociology

Toward a European Nation? Political Trends in Europe East and West, Center and Periphery

Edited by Max Haller, University of Graz and Rudolf Richter, University of Vienna

April 1994 320 pages Tables Index

Publisher: M.E. Sharpe

ISBN 1-56325-384-9 Cloth US$59.95

This volume examines the processes of integration and disintegration in Europe at the level of individual national and federal states, regions and the center/periphery. The twelve chapters have been organised into three parts, treating, respectively:

Trends in Western Europe (contributions by: Salvador Giner, "The Advent of Europe"; Mattei Dogan, "The Erosion of Nationalish in the Western European Community"; Volker Bornschier, "The Rise of the European Community"; and Maurizio Bach, "Bureaucratic Integration in the European Community");

Developments in Eastern Europe (Jiri Musil, "Integration and Disintegration Models: A comment based on post-Communist experiences"; Wlodzimierz Wesolowski, "Post-Communist Transition to Democracy: Its peculiar features"; Ivan Bernik, "Transition to Democracy in Eastern Europe"; and Dominique Schnapper, "The Significance of the Ethno-religious Field in Nation Building. Lessons for Europe");

European Integration Overall (Loek Halman and Peter Ester, "Developments in Religious and Moral Values in Western Europe"; Jap Dronkers, "The Causes of Growth of English Education in the Netherlands; Attila Eralp, "Turkey and the European Community in the Changing Postwar International System: Process of peripheralization in Europe"; Johan Galtung, "The Emerging European Super- Nationalism").

The Welfare State and Labour Market in a Changing Europe - Consequences for Citizenship, Work and Gender

Edited by Thomas P. Boje, Roskilde University

Publisher: M.E. Sharpe 1995

The Transformation of European Societies (Zsuzsa Ferge, "Social Citizenship in the New Democracies. The Difficulties in Reviving Citizen's Rights in Hungary"; John Holmwood and Janet Siltanen, "Gender, the Professions and Employment Citizenship"; Sylvia Walby, "Gender, Work and Fordism: The EC context"; Jörg Flecker, Paul Thompson and Terry Wallace, "Back to Convergence? Globalisation and Societal Effects on Work Organisation");

The European Welfare States in Reshaping (Abarn de Swaan, "Prospects for Transnational Social Policy in Europe; East-West Relations"; Georg Vobruba, "Transnational Social Policy in Processes of Transformation"; Bob Deacon, "Global Social Policy Actors and the Shaping of East European Welfare"; Pekka Kosonen, "European Welfare State Models - Converging Trends");

European Labour Markets in a Gender Perspective (Christel Lane, "Gender and Labour Market in Europe: Britain, Germany and France compared"; Anne Marie Daune-Richards, "Women's Employment and Different Societal Effects in France, Sweden and the United Kingdom"; Marlis Buchmann and Maria Charles, "Organizational and Institutional Factors in the Process of Gender Stratification: Comparing social arrangements in six European countries").

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