Neil Fligstein is the Class of 1939 Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California. He is the author of five books and over 50 papers. He has made scholarly contributions to the fields of organizational and economic sociology, political sociology, and the study of the European Union. His most recent books include The Architecture of Markets (Princeton University Press, 2001) and The Institutionalization of Europe (with Alec Stone Sweet and Wayne Sandholtz, Oxford University Press, 2001).

• 1. The Dynamics of European Society ; 2. Constructing Markets and Politics: The Formation of the European Union, 1958-2004 ; 3. Economic Transformation of Europe ; 4. The Creation of Markets: The Cases of the Defense, Telecommunications, and Football Industries ; 5. Who are the Europeans? ; 6. What is European Society? ; 7. The Structure of European Politics ; 8. Conclusions

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