ABSTRACT
Collective Action in the European Union addresses fundamental questions surrounding the European political economy. The impressive array of contributors ask how and why collective action is formed at the European level. They also consider whether collective action at the transnational level is driven by rational, utility maximising behaviour, or whether explanations couched in social terms are more convincing. Many of the chapters introduce fresh empirical studies, in the domains of business, the professions, consumers and environmental interests.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|32 pages
What drives associability at the European level?
The limits of the utilitarian explanation
chapter 7|27 pages
European consumer groups
Multiple levels of governance and multiple logics of collective action
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chapter 8|20 pages
Environmental collective action
Stable patterns of cooperation and issue alliances at the European level