This book provides a broad overview of the main trends in mass
attitudes towards domestic politics and European integration from
the 1970s until today. Particularly in the last two decades, the
"end of the permissive consensus" around European integration has
forced analysts to place public opinion at the centre of their
concerns. The book faces this challenge head on, and the overview
it provides goes well beyond the most commonly used indicators. On
the one hand, it shows how integration's deepening and enlargement
involved polities and societies whose fundamental traits in terms
of political culture - regime support, political engagement,
ideological polarization - have remained anything but static or
homogeneous. On the other hand, it addresses systematically what
Scharpf (1999) has long identified as the main sources of the
democratic deficits of the EU: the lack of a sense of collective
identity, the lack of a Europe-wide structure for political
accountability, and the lack of recognition of the EU as a
legitimate political authority. In other words, it focuses on the
fundamental dimensions of how Europeans relate to the EU: identity
(the sense of an "European political community"; representation
(the perception that European elites and institutions articulate
citizens' interests and are responsive to them); and policy scope
(the legitimacy awarded to the EU as a proper locus of
policy-making). It does so by employing a cohesive theoretical
framework derived from the entire IntUne project, survey and
macro-social data encompassing all EU member countries, and
state-of-the-art methods.
The IntUne series is edited by Maurizio Cotta and Pierangelo
Isernia
In a moment in which the EU is facing an important number of
social, economic, political and cultural challenges, and its
legitimacy and democratic capacities are increasingly questioned,
it seems particularly important to address the issue of if and how
EU citizenship is taking shape. This series intends to address this
complex issue. It reports the main results of a quadrennial
Europe-wide research project, financed under the 6th Framework
Programme of the EU. That programme has studied the changes in the
scope, nature and characteristics of citizenship presently underway
as a result of the process of deepening and enlargement of the
European Union.
The INTUNE Project - Integrated and United: A Quest for Citizenship
in an Ever Closer Europe - is one of the most recent and ambitious
research attempts to empirically study how citizenship is changing
in Europe. The Project lasted four years (2005-2009) and it
involved 30 of the most distinguished European universities and
research centres, with more than 100 senior and junior scholars as
well as several dozen graduate students working on it. It had as
its main focus an examination of how integration and
decentralization processes, at both the national and European
level, are affecting three major dimensions of citizenship:
identity, representation, and scope of governance. It looked, in
particular, at the relationships between political, social and
economic elites, the general public, policy experts and the media,
whose interactions nurture the dynamics of collective political
identity, political legitimacy, representation, and standards of
performance.
In order to address empirically these issues, the INTUNE Project
carried out two waves of mass and political, social and economic
elite surveys in 18 countries, in 2007 and 2009; in-depth
interviews with experts in five policy areas; extensive media
analysis in four countries; and a documentary analysis of attitudes
toward European integration, identity and citizenship. The book
series presents and discusses in a coherent way the results coming
out of this extensive set of new data.
The series is organized around the two main axes of the INTUNE
Project, to report how the issues of identity, representation and
standards of good governance are constructed and reconstructed at
the elite and citizen levels, and how mass-elite interactions
affect the ability of elites to shape identity, representation and
the scope of governance. A first set of four books will examine how
identity, scope of governance and representation have been changing
over time respectively at elites, media and public level. The next
two books will present cross-level analysis of European and
national identity on the one hand and problems of national and
European representation and scope of governance on the other, in
doing so comparing data at both the mass and elite level. A
concluding volume will summarize the main results, framing them in
a wider theoretical context.
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