Political allegiance after European integration

White, Jonathan ORCID: 0000-0002-4668-698X (2011) Political allegiance after European integration. Studies in European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780230279780

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Decades of co-rule have left EU citizens with attachments more complex than labels like 'European' or 'national identity' would suggest. But what kind of ties should we be looking for? How can they be studied, and where does their democratic significance lie? This book combines a conceptual elaboration of the political bond with a sociological study of commonsense suppositions, based on interviews with groups of taxi-drivers in Germany, Britain and the Czech Republic. The author investigates allegiance not in directly-solicited views on European matters but in the expectations and reference-points evoked spontaneously in political discussion. A willingness to take the transnational view on many issues is clear. But how those issues are understood raises doubts about their European dimensions and scepticism about the possibilities for addressing them. Without changes in the way politics is conceived, arguments for the European polity are likely to ring hollow, and with them the formal ties of EU citizenship.

Item Type:	Book
Official URL:	http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=46...
Additional Information:	© 2011 The Author
Divisions:	European Institute
Subjects:	J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe)
Date Deposited:	23 Mar 2011 14:01
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2024 14:39
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/33473

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