Giuseppe Di Palma

Legitimation from the Top to Civil Society: Politico-Cultural Change in Eastern Europe

Communism has collapsed in Eastern Europe because the regimes, no ionger justified by their Soviet hegemon, lost confidence in their “mandate from heaven.” Domestically and internationally discredited, East European regimes had traditionally shielded themselves behind a principle of legitimation from the top that saw communism as the global fulfillment of a universal theory of history. Once the theory became utterly indefensible, a crippling legitimacy vacuum ensued. Reacting against that theory, East European dissent, and a civil society of sorts, survived under communism not just as an underground political adversary but as a visible cultural and existential counterimage of communism. This fact must be given proper weight when assessing the capacity of civil society to rebound in postcommunist Eastern Europe.

Restructuring Territoriality: Europe and the United States Compared

Part I. Theoretical Frameworks: 1. Restructuring territoriality and authority Christopher K. Ansell 2. Old and new peripheries in the processes of European territorial integration Stefano Bartolini 3. Center-periphery alignments and political contention in Late-Modern Europe Sidney Tarrow Part II. The Transformation of Governance: 4. Sovereignty and territoriality in the European Union: transforming the UK institutional order James A. Caporaso and Joseph Jupille 5. Social citizenship in the European Union: towards a spatial reconfiguration? Maurizio Ferrera 6. Islands of transnational governance Alex Stone Sweet 7. Regional integration and left parties in Europe and North America Gary Marks and Ian Down Part III. Europe-US Comparisons: 8. The European Union in American perspective: the transformation of territorial sovereignty in Europe and the United States Sergio Fabbrini 9. Is the democratic deficit a deficiency: the case of immigration policy in the US and EU Bruce Cain 10. Territory, representation, and political outcome: the United States and the European Union compared Alberta Sbragia Part IV. Concluding Thoughts: 11. Territoriality, authority, democracy Christopher K. Ansell 12. Postscript: what inefficient history and malleable practices say about nation states and supranational democracy when territoriality in no longer exclusive Giuseppe Di Palma.

Personality and Conformity: The Learning of Political Attitudes

Why do some men embrace societys values while others reject them? Is conformity a general trait, more uniformly manifested by some people than by others? What social or psychological forces lie behind the tendency to conform or deviate? Although these questions obviously have significance for the conduct of political life, they have received far less attention from political scientists than from scholars in other disciplines such as psychology and sociology. In view of current challenges to the legitimacy of existing political institutions, the mounting debate over the acceptable limits of protest, and the growing disdain for democratic decision-processes shown by some segments of the population, the need for political scientists to understand the nature and sources of conformity and deviation has become, if anything, more urgent. We hope, in the present paper, to explore the psychological—and to some extent the social and political—meaning of conformity and deviation as reflected in citizen responses to political beliefs. To that end we shall review briefly the present state of psychological theory and research on conformity behavior; suggest, in light of our own research findings, some ways in which current psychological explanations might be modified and extended to account for conformity and deviation within the mass public; and furnish data that might help to explain why individuals who have different personality characteristics and who occupy different roles in the society are likely to accept or reject political norms.

Restructuring Territoriality: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS

Part I. Theoretical Frameworks: 1. Restructuring territoriality and authority Christopher K. Ansell 2. Old and new peripheries in the processes of European territorial integration Stefano Bartolini 3. Center-periphery alignments and political contention in Late-Modern Europe Sidney Tarrow Part II. The Transformation of Governance: 4. Sovereignty and territoriality in the European Union: transforming the UK institutional order James A. Caporaso and Joseph Jupille 5. Social citizenship in the European Union: towards a spatial reconfiguration? Maurizio Ferrera 6. Islands of transnational governance Alex Stone Sweet 7. Regional integration and left parties in Europe and North America Gary Marks and Ian Down Part III. Europe-US Comparisons: 8. The European Union in American perspective: the transformation of territorial sovereignty in Europe and the United States Sergio Fabbrini 9. Is the democratic deficit a deficiency: the case of immigration policy in the US and EU Bruce Cain 10. Territory, representation, and political outcome: the United States and the European Union compared Alberta Sbragia Part IV. Concluding Thoughts: 11. Territoriality, authority, democracy Christopher K. Ansell 12. Postscript: what inefficient history and malleable practices say about nation states and supranational democracy when territoriality in no longer exclusive Giuseppe Di Palma.

Restructuring Territoriality: Contents

Part I. Theoretical Frameworks: 1. Restructuring territoriality and authority Christopher K. Ansell 2. Old and new peripheries in the processes of European territorial integration Stefano Bartolini 3. Center-periphery alignments and political contention in Late-Modern Europe Sidney Tarrow Part II. The Transformation of Governance: 4. Sovereignty and territoriality in the European Union: transforming the UK institutional order James A. Caporaso and Joseph Jupille 5. Social citizenship in the European Union: towards a spatial reconfiguration? Maurizio Ferrera 6. Islands of transnational governance Alex Stone Sweet 7. Regional integration and left parties in Europe and North America Gary Marks and Ian Down Part III. Europe-US Comparisons: 8. The European Union in American perspective: the transformation of territorial sovereignty in Europe and the United States Sergio Fabbrini 9. Is the democratic deficit a deficiency: the case of immigration policy in the US and EU Bruce Cain 10. Territory, representation, and political outcome: the United States and the European Union compared Alberta Sbragia Part IV. Concluding Thoughts: 11. Territoriality, authority, democracy Christopher K. Ansell 12. Postscript: what inefficient history and malleable practices say about nation states and supranational democracy when territoriality in no longer exclusive Giuseppe Di Palma.

Restructuring Territoriality: Index

Part I. Theoretical Frameworks: 1. Restructuring territoriality and authority Christopher K. Ansell 2. Old and new peripheries in the processes of European territorial integration Stefano Bartolini 3. Center-periphery alignments and political contention in Late-Modern Europe Sidney Tarrow Part II. The Transformation of Governance: 4. Sovereignty and territoriality in the European Union: transforming the UK institutional order James A. Caporaso and Joseph Jupille 5. Social citizenship in the European Union: towards a spatial reconfiguration? Maurizio Ferrera 6. Islands of transnational governance Alex Stone Sweet 7. Regional integration and left parties in Europe and North America Gary Marks and Ian Down Part III. Europe-US Comparisons: 8. The European Union in American perspective: the transformation of territorial sovereignty in Europe and the United States Sergio Fabbrini 9. Is the democratic deficit a deficiency: the case of immigration policy in the US and EU Bruce Cain 10. Territory, representation, and political outcome: the United States and the European Union compared Alberta Sbragia Part IV. Concluding Thoughts: 11. Territoriality, authority, democracy Christopher K. Ansell 12. Postscript: what inefficient history and malleable practices say about nation states and supranational democracy when territoriality in no longer exclusive Giuseppe Di Palma.

Restructuring Territoriality: THE TRANSFORMATION OF GOVERNANCE

Part I. Theoretical Frameworks: 1. Restructuring territoriality and authority Christopher K. Ansell 2. Old and new peripheries in the processes of European territorial integration Stefano Bartolini 3. Center-periphery alignments and political contention in Late-Modern Europe Sidney Tarrow Part II. The Transformation of Governance: 4. Sovereignty and territoriality in the European Union: transforming the UK institutional order James A. Caporaso and Joseph Jupille 5. Social citizenship in the European Union: towards a spatial reconfiguration? Maurizio Ferrera 6. Islands of transnational governance Alex Stone Sweet 7. Regional integration and left parties in Europe and North America Gary Marks and Ian Down Part III. Europe-US Comparisons: 8. The European Union in American perspective: the transformation of territorial sovereignty in Europe and the United States Sergio Fabbrini 9. Is the democratic deficit a deficiency: the case of immigration policy in the US and EU Bruce Cain 10. Territory, representation, and political outcome: the United States and the European Union compared Alberta Sbragia Part IV. Concluding Thoughts: 11. Territoriality, authority, democracy Christopher K. Ansell 12. Postscript: what inefficient history and malleable practices say about nation states and supranational democracy when territoriality in no longer exclusive Giuseppe Di Palma.

Restructuring Territoriality: Acknowledgments

Part I. Theoretical Frameworks: 1. Restructuring territoriality and authority Christopher K. Ansell 2. Old and new peripheries in the processes of European territorial integration Stefano Bartolini 3. Center-periphery alignments and political contention in Late-Modern Europe Sidney Tarrow Part II. The Transformation of Governance: 4. Sovereignty and territoriality in the European Union: transforming the UK institutional order James A. Caporaso and Joseph Jupille 5. Social citizenship in the European Union: towards a spatial reconfiguration? Maurizio Ferrera 6. Islands of transnational governance Alex Stone Sweet 7. Regional integration and left parties in Europe and North America Gary Marks and Ian Down Part III. Europe-US Comparisons: 8. The European Union in American perspective: the transformation of territorial sovereignty in Europe and the United States Sergio Fabbrini 9. Is the democratic deficit a deficiency: the case of immigration policy in the US and EU Bruce Cain 10. Territory, representation, and political outcome: the United States and the European Union compared Alberta Sbragia Part IV. Concluding Thoughts: 11. Territoriality, authority, democracy Christopher K. Ansell 12. Postscript: what inefficient history and malleable practices say about nation states and supranational democracy when territoriality in no longer exclusive Giuseppe Di Palma.