Experiencing European integration : transnational lives and European identity
Kuhn, TheresaAuthor
European integration has generated a wide array of economic, political, and social opportunities beyond the nation state. An early theorist of European integration, Karl Deutsch, expected this development to promote a collective identity and public support for European integration: by interacting across borders, Europeans would eventually acquire a common 'we feeling'. This book puts these expectations under scrutiny by developing a comprehensive theoretical model that helps us understand how transnational interactions relate to orientations towards European integration.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
European integration has generated a wide array of economic, political, and social opportunities beyond the nation state. An early theorist of European integration, Karl Deutsch, expected this development to promote a collective identity and public support for European integration: by interacting across borders, Europeans would eventually acquire a common 'we feeling'. This book puts these expectations under scrutiny by developing a comprehensive theoretical model that helps us understand how transnational interactions relate to orientations towards European integration.
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Transnationalism -- Linking transnationalism to citizen orientations towards European integration -- Being and feeling European : the effect of individual transnationalism on EU support and European identity -- The social stratification of individual transnationalism in Europe -- Transactionalist theory under further empirical scrutiny : purpose and scope of interactions -- The Janus face of increased transactions -- Transnational Europhiles, local Eurosceptics.
European Union
Group identity
Public opinion
Transnationalism
Sociology & Social History
Social Sciences
Social Conditions