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European Narratives and Euroscepticism in the Western Balkans and the EU

By: Manuela Caiani,Benedetta Carlotti,Marko Lovec,Maria Wincławska,Faris Kočan,Adam Balcer

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European Narratives and Euroscepticism in the Western Balkans and the EU

By: Manuela Caiani,Benedetta Carlotti,Marko Lovec,Maria Wincławska,Faris Kočan,Adam Balcer

Moving from a social movement perspective, this timely volume examines narratives on Euroscepticism and frames on Europe from below, at the party and social movement levels. Revealing perspectives from both the Right and the Left, it unpacks the emergence, re-emergence and increase in critical ‘voices’ and opposition towards Europe. Based on extensive fieldwork in two candidate countries for accession to the EU and three member states, it offers insight from analysis of focus groups, interviews with Eurosceptic and pro-European political actors and ordinary citizens, together with frame analysis and scrutiny of archival material, electoral manifestoes and organisational documents. Revealing the development of Eurocritical frames, it demonstrates the differences and similarities in narratives used to address Europe and the conceptualisation of Euroscepticism. Key cases examined include the rise of illiberalism in post-transition Slovenia; complex Euroscepticism in Poland; the path from strong support to harsh opposition in Italy; indecision over membership in North Macedonia; anticipating the future while revisiting the past in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Offering guidelines for the direction of future research and policy, European Narratives and Euroscepticism in the Western Balkans and the EU is essential reading for scholars and students of political sociology, political science, European studies and international relations, as well as policy makers concerned with trajectories pro and against Europe and the European integration process.

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1040002382

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The European Union's Common Agricultural Policy Reforms

Towards a Critical Realist Approach

By: Marko Lovec

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The European Union's Common Agricultural Policy Reforms

Towards a Critical Realist Approach

By: Marko Lovec

This book engages in the controversies of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms, demonstrating how these are reiterated by mainstream theoretical approaches in the field. The reforms that the European Union’s CAP underwent during the last three decades were intended to make it less trade-distorting, more taxpayer-friendly and more able to meet the new challenges of environmental concerns and rural development/territorial cohesion. The outcome of the reforms has, however, contradicted these objectives, with the controversies being reiterated by the mainstream theoretical approaches in the field. European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy Reforms argues that these controversies are due to reductionist, rationalist and idealist assumptions with regard to the object of inquiry applied by mainstream approaches. It proposes an alternative critical approach that takes into account the role of real material factors. Critical realism is not just an alternative explanation of CAP reforms but an alternative theory of how explanations can be made, which enables readers to reflect upon and endorse the results of existing lines of research in proceeding towards deeper level theory.

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European Narratives and Euroscepticism in the Western Balkans and the EU

By: Manuela Caiani,Benedetta Carlotti,Marko Lovec,Maria Wincławska,Faris Kočan,Adam Balcer

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European Narratives and Euroscepticism in the Western Balkans and the EU

By: Manuela Caiani,Benedetta Carlotti,Marko Lovec,Maria Wincławska,Faris Kočan,Adam Balcer

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European Narratives and Euroscepticism in the Western Balkans and the EU

European Narratives and Euroscepticism in the Western Balkans and the EU

The European Union's Common Agricultural Policy Reforms

The European Union's Common Agricultural Policy Reforms

European Narratives and Euroscepticism in the Western Balkans and the EU

European Narratives and Euroscepticism in the Western Balkans and the EU

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