Crisis, what crisis?': on the virtues of muddling through in European politics

Radice, Henry (2013) Crisis, what crisis?': on the virtues of muddling through in European politics. Euro Crisis in the Press (24 Mar 2013). Blog Entry.

Text (blogs.lse.ac.uk-Crisis What Crisis On the Virtues of Muddling Through in European Politics) - Published Version Download (40kB)

• https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/eurocrisispress/...

Abstract

As a Europe on tenterhooks awaits the next development in the Cypriot crisis this weekend, the sense of popular disenchantment with the European project across much of the continent seems to echo a famous passage by Antonio Gramsci: “If the ruling class has lost its consensus, i.e., is no longer ‘leading’ but only ‘dominant’, exercising coercive force alone, this means precisely that the great masses have become detached from their traditional ideologies…. The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” [1]

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/eurocrisispress/
Additional Information:	© 2013 The Author
Divisions:	International Development Justice and Security Research Programme
Subjects:	J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe)
Date Deposited:	05 Dec 2014 15:39
Last Modified:	09 May 2025 03:58
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/60459

Actions (login required)

View Item