- 250 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book examines the legitimization of the European Union through the development and rapid rotation of narratives aiming to convey its identity and purpose.
Utilizing literature and data across a wide range of interdisciplinary areas rarely studied together, the book argues that three narratives have been dominant over the last 20 years: 'Europe of rights', 'Europe of values' and a 'European way of life'. It presents both theoretical and empirical research on the transformation of political domination, collective identities and EU legitimization, and analyses various 'crises' linked to socio-economic, security, identity and normative issues, such as terrorism and radicalization, pandemics, and morality politics. It finds that European narratives express lower ambitions on charismatic community-building, are constantly expanding to new domains, and are increasingly framed as being in a situation of existential threat, which may increase democratic tensions and give rise to a populist backlash.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of European integration, European Parliament, legitimization studies, political communication, and to comparative politics and political sociology.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Narratives and (European) politics
- 2 A European longing for sacred?
- 3 The “Europe of rights” narrative: binding, uniting, dividing
- 4 The “Europe of values” narrative: a broad and empty church on the market square?
- 5 The “European way of life” narrative: legitimization through shared everyday experiences?
- Conclusion: not without narratives, but which ones?
- Methodological appendix
- Index