Description: Explores how the European policies of the British Labour Party and Danish Social Democrats evolved between 1958 and enlargement of the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1973, comparing how they each responded to the integration process at key moments and, more innovatively, highlights the impact of informal contacts between them.
Brief description: Matthew Broad is an EU-funded Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Contemporary History and Political Science at the University of Turku, Finland.
Review Quotes:
'Broad's book is a fine accomplishment which sets an example on how government centred analysis can be hugely enriched by supplementing it with a transnational approach that moves beyond and below the state level - and still helps us to understand government agency.'
Thorsten Borring Olesen, Journal of European Integration History