Europe and the British Left: Beyond the Progressive Dilemma - Couverture rigide

Parker, Owen; Bishop, Matthew Louis; Lindstrom, Nicole

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1788212452 ISBN 13 : 9781788212458

Editeur : Agenda Publishing, 2024

Synopsis

The European question has divided the Labour Party and the progressive left for over 50 years. The contemporary left-wing antithesis to the EU harks back to Bennite anti-marketeer narratives: a neoliberal EU undermines the potential for national progressive policies in relation to labour markets, state intervention and finance. However, many make the case that the EU’s four freedoms support a progressive politics: the single market project embeds social and workers’ rights, challenges member state support for large corporate interests and facilitates free movement for EU citizens.

There is, in short, a progressive dilemma for the British left in relation to the European issue, which the authors navigate through the analysis of four policy issues that arose during the Brexit debate and remain significant for British politics and for the left in particular: free trade and the single market, industrial policy and state aid, free movement of persons and finance. Crucially, they point to a route beyond this dilemma for both Europe and the British left.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Owen Parker is Senior Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Cosmopolitan Government in Europe (2012), co-author of the textbook Politics in the European Union (2015) and, most recently, co-editor of Crisis in the Eurozone Periphery (2018).

Matthew Louis Bishop is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Sheffield. His books include The Political Economy of Caribbean Development (2013) and Democratization: A Critical Introduction (2nd edition, with J. Grugel, 2014).

Nicole Lindstrom is Professor of Politics at the University of York. She is the author of The Politics of Europeanization and Post-Socialist Transformations (2015) and Transnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions (2008).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Agenda Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1788212452
• ISBN 13: 9781788212458
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
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• Personne responsable: non disponible