ABSTRACT

Social Change in Political Transformation is thorough examination of political transformation the book features contributors from western and eastern Europe, giving their views on how European society and institutions are changing. The themes of social change, new movements and the development of European institutions are developed within a broad framework, and are supposed by considerable empirical detail relating to the European Community and a disaggregated eastern Europe. Students of political sociology, politics and European studies will all find this a useful text providing theories and explanations, as well as summaries of recent research.

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|12 pages

The European Community

Regime-building and institutionalization of criteria for rationality 1

chapter 4|17 pages

Theses on a post-military Europe

conscription, citizenship and militarism after the Cold War

chapter 10|12 pages

State and society in Poland