Haller, Max <br/><br/>
European integration as an elite process: the failure of a dream?/ 
Max Haller. 
 - New York :  Routledge,  2008. 
 - xxix, 431 p. :  ill., map ;  24 cm. 
 - Routledge advances in sociology ;  40. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-407) and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Living in two different worlds? the increasing split between elites and citizens about European integration -- European integration as an elite process : theoretical approach -- The political elites : how integration has opened up a wide field of new political careers -- The economic elites : between global capitalism and European (neo-) corporatism -- The eurocracy : the irresistible growth of a new and powerful supranational bureaucratic elite -- One union or many? public views of integration in the different EU member states -- The dream of Europe : intellectual ideas of integration and their "realization" -- The European Union as a "social community of law" : proposals for strengthening its social and democratic character. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415403900 0415403901 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Elite (Social sciences)--European Union countries.<br/>Supranationalism--European Union countries.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>European Union countries--Politics and government.<br/>European Union countries--Economic integration.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>341.2422   / HAL/E