The State of the European Union: Fault Lines in European Integration

Intro -- Vorwort des Herausgebers -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Part I Economic and Democratic Governance -- Fault Lines in European Integration. An Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Issues Tackled After the Financial Crisis and Fault Lines in the European Project -- 3 A Transdisciplinary Approach: Methodology and Theoretical Framework -- 4 Merit and Explanatory Value of the Transdisciplinary Approach on the Fault Lines in European Integration -- References -- Between the Normal State and an Exceptional State Form: Authoritarian Competitive Statism and the Crisis of Democracy in Europe -- Introduction -- 2 The Tension Between Democracy and Capitalism: The 'Normal Form of the State', 'Exceptional State' and 'Authoritarian Statism' -- 3 The European Ensemble of State Apparatuses and Authoritarian Competitive Statism -- 3.1 The Recomposition of the Directly Repressive Dispositifs of Prevention on the National Scale of the European Ensemble of State Apparatuses -- 3.2 The Economic Dispositifs of Prevention at the Supranational Scale Since the Crisis -- 3.3 The Pattern of Authoritarian Competitive Statism -- 4 New Democratic Openings Towards a Radical Transformation of Statehood -- References -- Losing Grounds: Masculine-Authoritarian Reconfigurations of Power Structures in the European Union -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Masculine Authoritarian Reconfigurations of EU Economic Governance -- 2.1 Key Features of EU Economic Governance -- 2.2 Gender-Blind Economic Policy Institutions, Rules and Objectives with Inherent Gender Biases and Implications -- 2.3 Gendered Actors Working with Rules -- 2.4 Gendered Implications of On-Going Transformations of the Role of the State and the Continued Fiscal Squeeze -- 2.5 Gendered Impacts of EU Economic Governance and Economic Policies on Living Conditions and Gender Relations.