THE EUROPEAN-COMMUNITY AND EUROPEAN GOVERNMENT - HARMONIZATION, MOBILITY AND SPACE

Authors
Citation
A. Barry, THE EUROPEAN-COMMUNITY AND EUROPEAN GOVERNMENT - HARMONIZATION, MOBILITY AND SPACE, Economy and society, 22(3), 1993, pp. 314-326
Citations number
29
Categorie Soggetti
Social, Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Journal title
ISSN journal
03085147
Volume
22
Issue
3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
314 - 326
Database
ISI
SICI code
0308-5147(1993)22:3<314:TEAEG->2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
Although the European Community does not possess many of the usual att ributes of a nation state, it is none. the less expected to provide a framework within which Europe's economic and social problems might be governed. This paper examines the methods with which the Community has sought to establish the possibility of European government. The focus of the paper is on the single market programme and the associated pro ject of 'harmonization'. It is argued that the harmonization project c an be seen both as a way of realizing a novel organization of European space, and as a process directed at establishing this space as a gove rnable entity. The paper examines the specific character of this spati al order, and its articulation with neo-liberal and neo-social democra tic conceptions of European government.