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Debating Political Identity and Legitimacy in the European Union.

How can we conceptualize identity and legitimacy in the context of the European union? What is the role of narratives, political symbols, public debate and institutional practices in the process of identity formation and legitimacy consolidation? Debating Political Identity and Legitimacy in the Eur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lucarelli, Sonia
Otros Autores: Cerutti, Furio, Schmidt, Vivien A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Colección:Routledge/GARNET series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover; Debating Political Identity and Legitimacy in the European Union; Copyright Page; Contents; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acronyms and abbreviations; Part I Reflections on identity and legitimacy in the European Union; 1 How not to (mis) understand political identity in the European Union; 2 The problems of identity and legitimacy in the European Union: is more politics the answer?; 3 Europe as a narrative network: taking the social embeddedness of identity constructions seriously; 4 European identity and support for European integration.
  • 5 Do the powers exerted by the EU need a legitimacy basedon the citizens' European identity?Part II Pathways to identity formation and legitimacy construction; 6 Three European constitutionalisms and their respective legitimacy requirements: explaining the longue duréestability of the EU polity; 7 False expectations: the counter productive side effects of the EU's use of political symbols; 8 Gaining European legitimacy and identity through unlocking the public spheres of nation states: the case of theNetherlands; 9 Mirrors of us: European political identity and the Others'image of the EU.
  • 10 Public visibility and citizen participation: the Europeanizationof foreign policy debates in the British and German publicspheres11 Debating identity and legitimacy in the EU: concluding remarks; Index.