Europeanization of National Polities?

Citizenship and Support in a Post-Enlargement Union
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-960234-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 628 g

Reihe: IntUne

The central concern ofThe Europeanization of National Polities? is to know and describe how far EU 'legal' citizens feel that they are actually part of a functioning European political system and how much they think of themselves as EU citizens. The authors report evidence of the levels of European identity, sense of EU representation and preferences for EU policy scope among European mass publics, which are the main dimensions of EU citizenship. The analysis uses a new comparative dataset on EU attitudes derived from a survey in 16 EU countries plus Serbia in 2007. This study shows that, despite initial expectations, levels of European identity, sense of EU representation, and preferences for EU policy scope among European mass publics did not display a strong trend in any particular direction during the period between 1975 and 2007. However, there are interesting variations in these measures of EU citizenship both across individuals and across countries that are described and explained by reference to a series of relevant hypotheses. The book pays particular attention to the inter-linkages among the three dimensions of citizenship itself. EU identity, representation and scope are all reciprocally related, but the representation dimension is key to the development of a generalised sense of a sense of citizenship at the EU level. This in turn places a significant premium on the need to address popular doubts about the EU's 'democratic deficit'.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of political science, EU studies, European integration, and comparative politics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bellucci, Paolo

Sanders, David

Toka, Gabor

Tóka, Gábor

Torcal, Mariano

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Kommunikation und Partizipation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Paolo Bellucci, David Sanders, Gabor Toka, Mariano Torcal: Introduction: Antecedents and Consequences of European Citizenship
2: David Sanders, Paolo Bellucci, Gabor Toka, and Mariano Torcal: Conceptualising and Measuring European Citizenship and Engagement
3: Corina Wagner, Markus Steinbrecher, Hans Rattinger: Towards Explanation: Developing Operational Measures of the Explanatory Variables
4: Paolo Bellucci, David Sanders, Fabio Serricchio: Explaining European Identity
5: Mariano Torcal, Eduard Bonet, Marina Costa Lobo: Institutional Trust and Responsiveness in the EU
6: Pedro C. Magalhães: The Scope of Government of the European Union: Explaining Citizens' Support for a More Powerful EU
7: Gabor Toka, Andrija Henjak, Radoslaw Markowski: Explaining Support for European Integration
8: Markus Steinbrecher, Hans Rattinger: Explaining Turnout in European Parliament Election
9: David Sanders, Paolo Bellucci, and Gabor Toka: Towards an Integrated Model of EU Citizenship and Support
10: David Sanders, Paolo Bellucci, Gabor Toka, and Mariano Torcal: Conclusions
Appendix: Sampling and Data, Variable Description, Data Weighting and Missing Value Imputation

Über Autor(innen)

Tóka, Gábor
Gábor Tóka specializes in voting behaviour and political attitude formation, especially in a comparative perspective and with respect to the impact of national institutions and political knowledge. He was a founding member of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems project and served as principal investigator for comparative and national election surveys in five countries. He is co-author of Post-Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation, and Inter-Party Cooperation (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and author of over five dozen articles in scholarly journals and edited volumes. He is Professor at the Department of Political Science, Central European University, Budapest.

Bellucci, Paolo
Paolo Bellucci has published articles and books on political behaviour. He serves in the Board of Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP), of ITANES (Italian National Election Study), and is chairman of the SISP standing group on Public Opinion and Political Behaviour. Principal co-investigator of the 2006 and 2008 Italian National Election Study. He is Professor of Comparative Political Behaviour and Chair of the Department of Historical, Social and Political Sciences of the University of Siena.

Torcal, Mariano
Mariano Torcal has published articles on the topics of political disaffection in new democracies, electoral behavior and political participation in major international journals. <"Honorable Mention for the Gregory M. Luebbert Prize for best article in Comparative Politics of 1997>" by the American Political Science Association. Reviewer and Member of the Editorial Board of many international journals. He is co-author of Disaffected Citizens: Social Capital, Institutions and Politics, London, Routledge 2006 (edited with José Ramón Montero) and many others in Spanish. He is Professor in Political Science at the Department of Political and Social Science at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and National Coordinator of the European Social Survey in Spain.

Sanders, David
David Sanders specialises in the analysis of public opinion and electoral behaviour in the UK and in Europe. He is coauthor of Political Choice in Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and of Performance Politics and the British Voter (Oxford University Press, 2009). He has been a co-Director of the British Election Study since 2000. He is is a Professor of Government at the University of Essex.

Paolo Bellucci has published articles and books on political behaviour. He serves in the Board of Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP), of ITANES (Italian National Election Study), and is chairman of the SISP standing group on Public Opinion and Political Behaviour. Principal co-investigator of the 2006 and 2008 Italian National Election Study. He is Professor of Comparative Political Behaviour and Chair of the Department of Historical, Social and Political Sciences of the University of Siena.

David Sanders specialises in the analysis of public opinion and electoral behaviour in the UK and in Europe. He is coauthor of Political Choice in Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and of Performance Politics and the British Voter (Oxford University Press, 2009). He has been a co-Director of the British Election Study since 2000. He is is a Professor of Government at the University of Essex.

Gábor Tóka specializes in voting behaviour and political attitude formation, especially in a comparative perspective and with respect to the impact of national institutions and political knowledge. He was a founding member of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems project and served as principal investigator for comparative and national election surveys in five countries. He is co-author of Post-Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation, and Inter-Party Cooperation (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and author of over five dozen articles in scholarly journals and edited volumes. He is Professor at the Department of Political Science, Central European University, Budapest.

Mariano Torcal has published articles on the topics of political disaffection in new democracies, electoral behavior and political participation in major international journals. "Honorable Mention for the Gregory M. Luebbert Prize for best article in Comparative Politics of 1997 " by the American Political Science Association. Reviewer and Member of the Editorial Board of many international journals. He is co-author of Disaffected Citizens: Social Capital, Institutions and Politics, London, Routledge 2006 (edited with José Ramón Montero) and many others in Spanish. He is Professor in Political Science at the Department of Political and Social Science at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and National Coordinator of the European Social Survey in Spain.