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Ellen Quintelier - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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European Identity and support for European integration a matter of perceived economic benefits
Kyklos, 2014Co-Authors: Soetkin Verhaegen, Marc Hooghe, Ellen QuintelierAbstract:type="main"> Economic utilitarian theory assumes a relationship between economic benefits, support for European integration and European Identity. While the relationship between economic benefits and support for European integration has already been empirically investigated, this is not the case for European Identity. Therefore, we test the association between economic indicators and European Identity, while performing the same analysis for support for European integration. Eight different objective and perceived economic parameters are tested, covering the whole spectrum of sociotropic, egocentric, objective and perceived benefits. The multilevel analyses on Eurobarometer data show that economic considerations are positively associated with support and European Identity. This is especially the case for perceived benefits, indicating that earlier findings about perception of benefits in the study of support for European integration are valid for European Identity as well.
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European Identity and Support for European Integration: A Matter of Perceived Economic Benefits?
Kyklos, 2014Co-Authors: Soetkin Verhaegen, Marc Hooghe, Ellen QuintelierAbstract:Summary Economic utilitarian theory assumes a relationship between economic benefits, support for European integration and European Identity. While the relationship between economic benefits and support for European integration has already been empirically investigated, this is not the case for European Identity. Therefore, we test the association between economic indicators and European Identity, while performing the same analysis for support for European integration. Eight different objective and perceived economic parameters are tested, covering the whole spectrum of sociotropic, egocentric, objective and perceived benefits. The multilevel analyses on Eurobarometer data show that economic considerations are positively associated with support and European Identity. This is especially the case for perceived benefits, indicating that earlier findings about perception of benefits in the study of support for European integration are valid for European Identity as well.
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The Intergenerational Transmission of European Identity: The Role of Gender and Discussion within Families
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2014Co-Authors: Ellen Quintelier, Soetkin Verhaegen, Marc HoogheAbstract:This article shows that while European Identity tends to be weak among Europeans, a significant transmission of European Identity occurs between parents and their children. Belgian adolescents' conversations with their mothers about the European Union strengthen this transmission process. This indicates that European Identity is not a superficial phenomenon, but that it is integrated into the social Identity of families. Various authors have already stated that the project of European integration requires development of a stronger sense of European Identity among citizens of the European Union Member States. Using insights from social Identity theory, it is demonstrated in the paper that salient social identities are being transmitted within families. Analyses of the Parent–Child Socialization Study, conducted among 2,085 Belgian father–mother–child triads, back this conclusion.
Marc Hooghe - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the effect of political trust and trust in European citizens on European Identity
European Political Science Review, 2017Co-Authors: Marc Hooghe, Soetkin VerhaegenAbstract:In the literature, two approaches toward the development of a European Identity can be distinguished. Society-based approaches assume that the most important foundation for the development of a European Identity is trust toward other European citizens as this allows Europeans to identify with the European Union as a community of citizens and values. The institutional approach, on the other hand, assumes that a shared European Identity is predominantly based on trust in political institutions. In this paper, we use the results of the IntUne Mass Survey 2009 ( n =16,613 in 16 EU member states) to test the relationship between social and political trust on the one hand, and European Identity on the other. The results suggest that trust in other European citizens is positively associated with European Identity, but trust in the European political institutions has a stronger relation with European Identity. This could imply that efforts to strengthen European Identity cannot just rely on a bottom-up approach, but should also pay attention to the effectiveness and the visibility of the EU institutions and the way they are being perceived by European citizens.
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European Identity and support for European integration a matter of perceived economic benefits
Kyklos, 2014Co-Authors: Soetkin Verhaegen, Marc Hooghe, Ellen QuintelierAbstract:type="main"> Economic utilitarian theory assumes a relationship between economic benefits, support for European integration and European Identity. While the relationship between economic benefits and support for European integration has already been empirically investigated, this is not the case for European Identity. Therefore, we test the association between economic indicators and European Identity, while performing the same analysis for support for European integration. Eight different objective and perceived economic parameters are tested, covering the whole spectrum of sociotropic, egocentric, objective and perceived benefits. The multilevel analyses on Eurobarometer data show that economic considerations are positively associated with support and European Identity. This is especially the case for perceived benefits, indicating that earlier findings about perception of benefits in the study of support for European integration are valid for European Identity as well.
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European Identity and Support for European Integration: A Matter of Perceived Economic Benefits?
Kyklos, 2014Co-Authors: Soetkin Verhaegen, Marc Hooghe, Ellen QuintelierAbstract:Summary Economic utilitarian theory assumes a relationship between economic benefits, support for European integration and European Identity. While the relationship between economic benefits and support for European integration has already been empirically investigated, this is not the case for European Identity. Therefore, we test the association between economic indicators and European Identity, while performing the same analysis for support for European integration. Eight different objective and perceived economic parameters are tested, covering the whole spectrum of sociotropic, egocentric, objective and perceived benefits. The multilevel analyses on Eurobarometer data show that economic considerations are positively associated with support and European Identity. This is especially the case for perceived benefits, indicating that earlier findings about perception of benefits in the study of support for European integration are valid for European Identity as well.
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The Intergenerational Transmission of European Identity: The Role of Gender and Discussion within Families
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2014Co-Authors: Ellen Quintelier, Soetkin Verhaegen, Marc HoogheAbstract:This article shows that while European Identity tends to be weak among Europeans, a significant transmission of European Identity occurs between parents and their children. Belgian adolescents' conversations with their mothers about the European Union strengthen this transmission process. This indicates that European Identity is not a superficial phenomenon, but that it is integrated into the social Identity of families. Various authors have already stated that the project of European integration requires development of a stronger sense of European Identity among citizens of the European Union Member States. Using insights from social Identity theory, it is demonstrated in the paper that salient social identities are being transmitted within families. Analyses of the Parent–Child Socialization Study, conducted among 2,085 Belgian father–mother–child triads, back this conclusion.
Soetkin Verhaegen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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What to expect from European Identity? Explaining support for solidarity in times of crisis
Comparative European Politics, 2017Co-Authors: Soetkin VerhaegenAbstract:Having a European Identity is expected to influence citizens’ attitudes and behaviour towards the EU community. European Identity is indeed positively related to support for EU integration, but are citizens with a stronger European Identity also willing to pay a price for this identification, and to what extent? The contribution provides an answer to these questions by performing multilevel analyses on the EES 2014 data. The analyses show that citizens with a stronger European Identity are more supportive of financial solidarity with member states in economic crisis. This explanation for support for solidarity is stronger than explanations provided by self-interest and economic ideological position. Citizens are thus willing to pay a price for their European Identity. However, one can only expect so much from European Identity as significant interaction effects show that the positive relationship between European Identity and support for solidarity is mitigated by experiencing economic hardship.
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the effect of political trust and trust in European citizens on European Identity
European Political Science Review, 2017Co-Authors: Marc Hooghe, Soetkin VerhaegenAbstract:In the literature, two approaches toward the development of a European Identity can be distinguished. Society-based approaches assume that the most important foundation for the development of a European Identity is trust toward other European citizens as this allows Europeans to identify with the European Union as a community of citizens and values. The institutional approach, on the other hand, assumes that a shared European Identity is predominantly based on trust in political institutions. In this paper, we use the results of the IntUne Mass Survey 2009 ( n =16,613 in 16 EU member states) to test the relationship between social and political trust on the one hand, and European Identity on the other. The results suggest that trust in other European citizens is positively associated with European Identity, but trust in the European political institutions has a stronger relation with European Identity. This could imply that efforts to strengthen European Identity cannot just rely on a bottom-up approach, but should also pay attention to the effectiveness and the visibility of the EU institutions and the way they are being perceived by European citizens.
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European Identity and support for European integration a matter of perceived economic benefits
Kyklos, 2014Co-Authors: Soetkin Verhaegen, Marc Hooghe, Ellen QuintelierAbstract:type="main"> Economic utilitarian theory assumes a relationship between economic benefits, support for European integration and European Identity. While the relationship between economic benefits and support for European integration has already been empirically investigated, this is not the case for European Identity. Therefore, we test the association between economic indicators and European Identity, while performing the same analysis for support for European integration. Eight different objective and perceived economic parameters are tested, covering the whole spectrum of sociotropic, egocentric, objective and perceived benefits. The multilevel analyses on Eurobarometer data show that economic considerations are positively associated with support and European Identity. This is especially the case for perceived benefits, indicating that earlier findings about perception of benefits in the study of support for European integration are valid for European Identity as well.
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European Identity and Support for European Integration: A Matter of Perceived Economic Benefits?
Kyklos, 2014Co-Authors: Soetkin Verhaegen, Marc Hooghe, Ellen QuintelierAbstract:Summary Economic utilitarian theory assumes a relationship between economic benefits, support for European integration and European Identity. While the relationship between economic benefits and support for European integration has already been empirically investigated, this is not the case for European Identity. Therefore, we test the association between economic indicators and European Identity, while performing the same analysis for support for European integration. Eight different objective and perceived economic parameters are tested, covering the whole spectrum of sociotropic, egocentric, objective and perceived benefits. The multilevel analyses on Eurobarometer data show that economic considerations are positively associated with support and European Identity. This is especially the case for perceived benefits, indicating that earlier findings about perception of benefits in the study of support for European integration are valid for European Identity as well.
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The Intergenerational Transmission of European Identity: The Role of Gender and Discussion within Families
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2014Co-Authors: Ellen Quintelier, Soetkin Verhaegen, Marc HoogheAbstract:This article shows that while European Identity tends to be weak among Europeans, a significant transmission of European Identity occurs between parents and their children. Belgian adolescents' conversations with their mothers about the European Union strengthen this transmission process. This indicates that European Identity is not a superficial phenomenon, but that it is integrated into the social Identity of families. Various authors have already stated that the project of European integration requires development of a stronger sense of European Identity among citizens of the European Union Member States. Using insights from social Identity theory, it is demonstrated in the paper that salient social identities are being transmitted within families. Analyses of the Parent–Child Socialization Study, conducted among 2,085 Belgian father–mother–child triads, back this conclusion.
Michael Bruter - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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News, Symbols, and European Identity
Citizens of Europe?, 2005Co-Authors: Michael BruterAbstract:It is now time to examine whether, and to what extent, the news on Europe conveyed by the media, and the symbols of Europe generated by institutions have the expected impact on the level of European Identity of citizens. This chapter also considers whether this effect is the same on the civic and cultural components of European Identity. The model tested consequently considers the impact of news on Europe and symbols of the European Union on the general, civic, and cultural aspects of citizens’ European Identity. The findings are presented both for the whole population studied in the experiment and for each country sample. The chapter then focuses more specifically on the various surprises, shortcomings, and unexplained findings of my results and tries to propose a more critical view of what they might tell us about political persuasion and the potential influence of political institutions, and the mass media on citizens’ perceptions and identities. It also discusses the comparative dimension of the models, and the insight added by the cross-national comparisons.
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Citizens of Europe?: The Emergence of a Mass European Identity
2005Co-Authors: Michael BruterAbstract:List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Plan of the Book: Summary of the Chapters Introduction: What is Identity? PART I: THEORISING THE EMERGENCE OF A European Identity The Model and Research Design: Institutions, Media, and the Development of a Mass European Identity A Comparative Analytic Narrative of Identity Formation in the United Kingdom, Austria, Israel, and the United States of America With Aforethought? Institutions, Symbols, and the Quest for a New Identity in Europe PART II: HAS A MASS European Identity EMERGED? Who Feels European? Measurement of European Identity and Differences Across Individuals News, Symbols, and Evolution of Individuals' Level of European Identity Symbols of European Integration, Institutional Inertia, and News on Europe: 1970-2000 On What it Means to 'Be European': Making Citizens Talk about 'Europe' and 'Europeanness' Conclusion: Institutions and the Emergence of a Mass Political Identity: Lessons for the Future Appendices Tables and Figures Bibliography Endnotes
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1970–2000 — The Emergence of a Mass European Identity
Citizens of Europe?, 2005Co-Authors: Michael BruterAbstract:It has just been shown that, as expected, exposure to symbols of European integration, exposure to positive and negative ‘news’ on Europe, and, to some extent, the personal experience of European integration of citizens all influence the level of European Identity of individuals. These findings are extremely important in that they give us information not known so far regarding the mechanisms of Identity change and evolution and the potential role of institutions in mass Identity formation. This chapter is precisely concerned with the aggregate level consequences of the findings of Chapter 6 on the progressive emergence of a mass European Identity. In other words, if positive news on and symbols of Europe have, as shown in the last few pages, a positive effect on the European Identity of citizens, the efforts of EU institutions to generate a full set of symbols for the European political system must have led to a slowly emerging mass European Identity, while the type of news received on Europe in the various EU countries must have made this emergence slower or faster across the fifteen member-States. Moreover, a further hypothesis formulated in Chapter 2 suggests that the very membership of the European Union must, in itself, be a factor of increasing identification of citizens with their new political community.
Sybille Luhmann - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The European Identity Survey – a Bridge between Political Science and Psychology
Journal of Contemporary European Research, 2017Co-Authors: Sybille LuhmannAbstract:At the heart of this article is the question of how we can measure European Identity more accurately to answer some of the fundamental questions that are starting to emerge in times of populism and disintegration: is there a single European Identity? Or are there many? In order to do so, the article first summarises the dominant discourse on collective identities in political science literature, before gauging insights from psychological approaches. Subsequently, new methods of measurement that bridge both fields are considered. Finally, all three are combined into a comprehensive and interdisciplinary European Identity Survey. This survey is designed to construct a multi-dimensional index on civic and cultural European Identity. Rather than assuming some answers to be ‘more European’ than others, it gauges the convergence of different groups along multiple dimensions that are considered to constitute an Identity. In doing so, the paper endeavours not only to introduce a new way of measuring European Identity but also to contribute to analysis on the assumed growing polarisation of Identity narratives and its societal and political implications.
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A Multi‐Level Approach to European Identity: Does Integration Foster Identity?
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2017Co-Authors: Sybille LuhmannAbstract:Many integration theories predict that heightened integration in Europe will give rise to a European Identity. As integration advances, so does the scholarly debate on Identity. This article endeavours to contribute to the debate by investigating the relationship between European integration and European Identity longitudinally in 14 countries over 21 years from 1992 to 2012. Using Eurobarometer and EU Index data, this relationship is found to be exponential with current integration levels predicting the imminent emergence of a European Identity. In order to better understand whose identities are impacted or formed most by integration, the paper then turns to three intervening concepts: (1) cognitive mobilization, (2) optimism, and (3) support of the EU. All of these amplify the effect of integration on Identity with the noteworthy exception of optimism. Finally, the article evaluates the implications of these findings for neofunctionalism and the literature on European Identity more broadly.
