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Book Review: Globalizing Issues: How Claims, Frames, and Problems Cross Borders

Book Review: Globalizing Issues: How Claims, Frames, and Problems Cross Borders 350 Acta Sociologica 65(3) global financial sector, is of considerable strategic importance for European elites, then Brexit could have significant consequences for this class across Europe. The authors’ final contribution deepens the analysis of European political conflicts by advancing Fligstein’s (2008) argument that the ‘European field’ pits a class of mobile, trans-European elites against working classes rooted in dif- ferent nations, seeking to retain their former ‘citizenship rents’. They reveal the structural depth of this division, which has intensified as the European project has deepened. Rather than Brexit being due to English peculiarities, driven by political contingencies and populist rhetoric, Hugree et al. see it as characterising divides across Europe. They chart the systematic decline of popular engagement with European institutions over time. ‘Although the working class makes up 43% of people at work across Europe, it remains completely absent from EU institutions, and it struggles to establish a trade union and political presence at European level’ (p. 178–179). This underlines the structural difficulties of gener- alizing this class antagonism across Europe, and how nationalist and xenophobic repertoires have become a default. This is a bleak prognosis since there are no obvious progressive political responses by the EU because http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Acta Sociologica SAGE

Book Review: Globalizing Issues: How Claims, Frames, and Problems Cross Borders

Acta Sociologica , Volume 65 (3): 3 – Aug 1, 2022

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Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2021
ISSN
0001-6993
eISSN
1502-3869
DOI
10.1177/00016993211021928
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Abstract

350 Acta Sociologica 65(3) global financial sector, is of considerable strategic importance for European elites, then Brexit could have significant consequences for this class across Europe. The authors’ final contribution deepens the analysis of European political conflicts by advancing Fligstein’s (2008) argument that the ‘European field’ pits a class of mobile, trans-European elites against working classes rooted in dif- ferent nations, seeking to retain their former ‘citizenship rents’. They reveal the structural depth of this division, which has intensified as the European project has deepened. Rather than Brexit being due to English peculiarities, driven by political contingencies and populist rhetoric, Hugree et al. see it as characterising divides across Europe. They chart the systematic decline of popular engagement with European institutions over time. ‘Although the working class makes up 43% of people at work across Europe, it remains completely absent from EU institutions, and it struggles to establish a trade union and political presence at European level’ (p. 178–179). This underlines the structural difficulties of gener- alizing this class antagonism across Europe, and how nationalist and xenophobic repertoires have become a default. This is a bleak prognosis since there are no obvious progressive political responses by the EU because

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Published: Aug 1, 2022

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