Mapping attitudes towards the European Union. A comparative analysis among European citizens of 27 member states - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mapping attitudes towards the European Union. A comparative analysis among European citizens of 27 member states write by Anja Köngeter. This book was released on 2015-01-08. Mapping attitudes towards the European Union. A comparative analysis among European citizens of 27 member states available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Master's Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Sociology - Culture, Technology, Nations, grade: 2.0, University of Heidelberg (Institute of Sociology), language: English, abstract: The European Union’s growing range of competences increases the degree of required societal support among the member states’ citizens. This study intends to ‘map’ national attitudes towards the EU and to deduct their political implications. Therefore, the concepts of i) identification with the EU and ii) support of the EU are combined within a matrix of four ideal types. Individuals are assigned to these four ideal types: the ‘EU-Enthusiasts’, the ‘EU-Pragmatics’, the ‘sceptical EU-Idealists’, and the ‘EU-Opponents’/’EU-Non-affected’. In this master thesis it is claimed that the population share of the two ‘mixed’ ideal types - mostly neglected in the literature – provide essential insight into national attitude towards the EU: ‘sceptical EU-Idealists’ identify themselves as citizens of the EU but are critical towards its politics; on the other hand, ‘EU-Pragmatics’ support the EU’s politics but do not identify with its institutions or its community.
Perceptions of the European Union in New Member States
Perceptions of the European Union in New Member States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perceptions of the European Union in New Member States write by Gabriella Ilonszki. This book was released on 2013-10-31. Perceptions of the European Union in New Member States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book explores the views of elites alongside those of the wider population in the European Union. The chapters place the new member states – and the potential candidate Serbia – on the map of Europe in this context for the first time. The volume's comparative method goes beyond the standard old member states versus new member states divide. It assesses regional differences within Central Europe and evaluates the problem of European and national identity formation, perception of external threats to the EU (including Russia), differences between economic and political elite views about the integration process and the connection between national performance and public opinion about Europe. Even though, in each country, positive views are dominant about the integration process, heterogeneous views prevail behind the image of a unifying Europe. The book’s major contribution is that it makes the new member states more visible and provides hard evidence while remaining theoretically driven. Furthermore, it covers the most important topics that emerge in studies concerning European integration. The book is intended for those interested in European integration in general but Central and Eastern European comparativists will find it particularly useful. This book was published as a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies.
Perceptions of Europe
Perceptions of Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perceptions of Europe write by Daniel Gaxie. This book was released on 2013. Perceptions of Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents the main findings of a comparative qualitative survey conducted in France, Germany, Italy, and Poland. Ordinary citizens from very different social backgrounds and professions were asked a range of open-ended questions, allowing them to express themselves freely. There have been few qualitative surveys on ordinary citizens views of European integration, and none on this scale. The resulting picture is very different from the self-evident assumptions of many current studies on European opinions. The book stresses the great diversity, ambiguity, and complexity of European attitudes. It emphasises the causal impact of formal education, political interest and involvement, individual everyday exposures to ‘European’ realities, and the role of collective national experiences of European integration and national history. This book: is the first qualitative survey among ordinary from all social strata across Europe that explores perceptions and judgments on ‘Europe’ and the EU; explains the underlying logic of why Europe and European integration are such a far reality to most citizens; explores how most citizens are poorly - but unequally - informed about and interested in European subjects; investigates how citizens are able to express perceptions of ‘Europe’ by using a series of analogies and comparisons often linked to their daily experiences; identifies the complex range of issues that influence our perceptions, and the irresolute, fragmentary, mixed, and sometimes contradictory nature of these opinions.
The Political Attitudes of Divided European Citizens
The Political Attitudes of Divided European Citizens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Political Attitudes of Divided European Citizens write by Christian Lahusen. This book was released on 2020-11-02. The Political Attitudes of Divided European Citizens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003046653, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This book unveils the significant impact of the European integration process on the political thinking of European citizens. With close attention to the interrelation between social and political divisions, it shows that an integrated Europe promotes consensus but also propagates growing dissent among its citizens, with both objective inequalities and the subjective perception of these inequalities fuelling political dissent. Based on original data sets developed from two EU-funded projects across eight and nine European countries, the volume demonstrates the important role played by the social structure of European social space in conditioning political attitudes and preferences. It shows, in particular, that Europeans are highly sensitive to unequal living conditions between European countries, thus affecting their political support of national politics and the European Union. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and politics with interests in Europe and the European Union, European integration and political sociology.
Identity, Interests and Attitudes to European Integration
Identity, Interests and Attitudes to European Integration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Identity, Interests and Attitudes to European Integration write by L. McLaren. This book was released on 2005-12-16. Identity, Interests and Attitudes to European Integration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With growing levels of Euroscepticism across EU member states, grasping the roots of opposition to European integration has become more important than ever. This book charts public perceptions of the European Union in both the EU-15 and the new member states and introduces an identity-based model to explain mass Euroscepticism.
