Governance and European Civil Society

Governmentality, Discourse and NGOs

Acar Kutay (University of Bergen, Norway)

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Routledge
23 August 2018

EU & European institutions

Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics

This book provides a critical analysis of the European Union’s approach to ‘governance’, focusing on the way in which civil society is incorporated within the EU decision-making process and arguing that it is not conducive to the democratisation of EU governance.

Using a governmentality approach, Kutay demonstrates that civic actors are not incorporated into EU decision-making processes as they are; rather, they are formed, manipulated and guided by political programming. The author explains how this acts to prescribe and construct particular types of subjectivities, thereby limiting and constraining the types of participation that might emerge as part of European civil society and the process of political participation.

Governance and European Civil Society will be of interest to students and scholars of European Union politics, global governance, civil society and democracy, Central and East European studies and political and international theory.

By: Acar Kutay (University of Bergen Norway)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138377363
ISBN 10: 1138377368
Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 23 August 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. Theoretical perspective: Governmentality and discursive formation of European civil society 2. Civil society participation in governance: A Global project? 3. European governance and civil society 4. A Case Study on the Social Platform of European NGOs: A performing agent of European civil society 5. Conducting a European civil society agency: embedding neoliberal governance through managerial subjects

Acar Kutay is an Affiliated Researcher Fellow at the Christian Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway.

Reviews for Governance and European Civil Society: Governmentality, Discourse and NGOs

The book's strength lies in challenging the dominant optimistic narrative concerning civil society's involvement in governance through an in-depth case study of this key association, but the analysis is also limited to this case and subject to the author's interpretation. Summing Up: Optional. Graduate, research, and professional collections. --A. A. Caviedes, State University of New York at Fredonia, CHOICE February 2015