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The European Union's (EU) market integration project has dramatically altered economic activity around Europe. This book presents evidence on how trade has increased, jobs have been created, and European business has been reorganized. The changes in the economy have been accompanied by dramatic changes in how people from different societies interact. This book argues that these changes have produced a truly transnational European society. The book explores the nature of that society and its relationship to the creation of a European identity, popular culture, and politics. Much of the current political conflict around Europe can be attributed to who is and who is not involved in European society. Business owners, managers, professionals, white-collar workers, the educated, and the young have all benefited from European economic integration, specifically by interacting more and more with their counterparts in other societies. They tend to think of themselves as Europeans. Older, poorer, less educated, and blue-collar citizens have benefited less. They view the EU as intrusive on national sovereignty, or they fear its pro-business orientation will overwhelm the national welfare states. They have maintained national identities. There is a third group of mainly-middle class citizens who see the EU in mostly positive terms and sometimes — but not always — think of themselves as Europeans. It is this swing group that is most critical for the future of the European project. If they favor more European cooperation, politicians will oblige. But, if they prefer that policies remain wedded to the nation, European cooperation will stall.
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A Community of Europeans?
In A Community of Europeans? a thoughtful observer of the
ongoing project of European integration evaluates the state of the
art about European identity and European public spheres. Thomas
Risse argues that integration has had profound and long-term
effects on the citizens of EU countries, most of whom now have at
least a secondary \"European identity\" to complement their national
identities. Risse also claims that we can see the gradual emergence
of transnational European communities of communication. Exploring
the outlines of this European identity and of the communicative
spaces, Risse sheds light on some pressing questions: What do
\"Europe\" and \"the EU\" mean in the various public debates? How do
European identities and transnational public spheres affect
policymaking in the EU? And how do they matter in discussions about
enlargement, particularly Turkish accession to the EU? What will be
the consequences of the growing contestation and politicization of
European affairs for European democracy?
This focus on identity allows Risse to address the \"democratic
deficit\" of the EU, the disparity between the level of decision
making over increasingly relevant issues for peoples' lives (at the
EU) and the level where politics plays itself out-in the member
states. He argues that the EU's democratic deficit can only be
tackled through politicization and that \"debating Europe\" might
prove the only way to defend modern and cosmopolitan Europe against
the increasingly forceful voices of Euroskepticism.
In A Community of Europeans? , a thoughtful observer of
the ongoing project of European integration evaluates the state of
the art about European identity and European public spheres. Thomas
Risse argues that integration has had profound and long-term
effects on the citizens of EU countries, most of whom now have at
least a secondary \"European identity\" to complement their national
identities. Risse also claims that we can see the gradual emergence
of transnational European communities of communication.Exploring
the outlines of this European identity and of the communicative
spaces, Risse sheds light on some pressing questions: What do
\"Europe\" and \"the EU\" mean in the various public debates? How do
European identities and transnational public spheres affect
policymaking in the EU? And how do they matter in discussions about
enlargement, particularly Turkish accession to the EU? What will be
the consequences of the growing contestation and politicization of
European affairs for European democracy?This focus on identity
allows Risse to address the \"democratic deficit\" of the EU, the
disparity between the level of decision making over increasingly
relevant issues for peoples' lives (at the EU) and the level where
politics plays itself out-in the member states. He argues that the
EU's democratic deficit can only be tackled through politicization
and that \"debating Europe\" might prove the only way to defend
modern and cosmopolitan Europe against the increasingly forceful
voices of Euroskepticism.
eBook
Computational principles and challenges in single-cell data integration
The development of single-cell multimodal assays provides a powerful tool for investigating multiple dimensions of cellular heterogeneity, enabling new insights into development, tissue homeostasis and disease. A key challenge in the analysis of single-cell multimodal data is to devise appropriate strategies for tying together data across different modalities. The term ‘data integration’ has been used to describe this task, encompassing a broad collection of approaches ranging from batch correction of individual omics datasets to association of chromatin accessibility and genetic variation with transcription. Although existing integration strategies exploit similar mathematical ideas, they typically have distinct goals and rely on different principles and assumptions. Consequently, new definitions and concepts are needed to contextualize existing methods and to enable development of new methods.
As the number of single-cell experiments with multiple data modalities increases, Argelaguet and colleagues review the concepts and challenges of data integration.
Journal Article
The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims
The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims traces how governments across Western Europe have responded to the growing presence of Muslim immigrants in their countries over the past fifty years. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews with government officials and religious leaders in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Morocco, and Turkey, Jonathan Laurence challenges the widespread notion that Europe's Muslim minorities represent a threat to liberal democracy.
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Mixed communities : gentrification by stealth?
Encouraging neighbourhood social mix has been a major goal of urban policy and planning in a number of different countries. This book draws together a range of case studies by international experts to assess the impacts of social mix policies and the degree to which they might represent gentrification by stealth.
Book
Multidimensional measure of immigrant integration
The successful integration of immigrants into a host country’s society, economy, and polity has become a major issue for policymakers in recent decades. Scientific progress in the study of immigrant integration has been hampered by the lack of a common measure of integration, which would allow for the accumulation of knowledge through comparison across studies, countries, and time. To address this fundamental problem, we propose the Immigration Policy Lab (IPL) Integration Index as a pragmatic and multidimensional measure of immigrant integration. The measure, both in the 12-item short form (IPL-12) and the 24-item long form (IPL-24), captures six dimensions of integration: psychological, economic, political, social, linguistic, and navigational. The measure can be used across countries, over time, and across different immigrant groups and can be administered through short questionnaires available in different modes. We report on four surveys we conducted to evaluate the empirical performance of our measure. The tests reveal that the measure distinguishes among immigrant groups with different expected levels of integration and also correlates with well-established predictors of integration.
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