Critical Junctures and Social Identity Theory: Explaining the Gap between Danish Mass and Elite Attitudes to Europeanization

Flockhart, Trine

doi:10.1111/j.0021-9886.2005.00554.x

Cited by 32 publications

(22 citation statements)

References 14 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…This, in turn, has motivated the launch of a research agenda on the elitemass opinion incongruence regarding European integration. These studies have all come to similar conclusions: Whereas most European elites largely support the EU project, a large part of the general population remains skeptical about further European integration (Best et al 2012;Flockhart 2005;Hooghe 2003;Mattila & Raunio 2006;Steenbergen et al 2007).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 84%

How Denationalization Divides Elites and Citizens

Teney

Helbling

2014

Zeitschrift Für Soziologie

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Summary: Based on a unique survey among members of top level elites in eleven fields of activity in Germany, we investigate (1) elite-mass opinion incongruence and (2) the polarization of elites' positions on four contested denationalization issues. Our results show that the elite-mass attitudinal gap is significant for items directly tapping support for the further opening up of national borders, even when controlling for education, age, gender, place of residence, and political orientation. By contrast, elites across different fields of activity hold rather consensual positions on the issues of denationalization explored in the survey. Transnational networking and transnational mobility are not significantly associated with attitudes toward these issues. Elites with a strong supranational identity are significantly more strongly in favor of opening up borders to immigrants and increasing aid to developing countries.Keywords: Elites; Globalization; Transnationalism; Attitudes; Social Cleavage; Germany.Zusammenfassung: Auf der Grundlage einer einmaligen Befragung von Eliten in Top-Positionen in elf Tätigkeitsfeldern erforschen wir (1) Inkongruenzen von Meinungen zwischen den Eliten und der Bevçlkerung und (2) die Polarisierung von Eliten-Positionen zu vier umstrittenen Denationalisierungs-Themen. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Kluft zwischen den Eliten und der Bevçlkerung in jenen Fragen signifikant ausfällt, die in einem direkten Zusammenhang mit der weiteren Öffnung nationaler Grenzen stehen. Dieser Zusammenhang bleibt auch dann bestehen, wenn wir auf Bildung, Alter, Geschlecht, Wohnsitz und politische Orientierung kontrollieren. Im Gegensatz dazu nehmen Eliten, unabhängig von ihren Tätigkeitsfeldern, vergleichsweise einvernehmliche Positionen zu Fragen der Denationalisierung ein. Transnationale Aktivitäten und Mobilität stehen in keinem signifikanten Zusammenhang mit Einstellungen zu den vier untersuchten Themen. Eliten mit einer stark ausgeprägten supranationalen Identität sprechen sich allerdings deutlich häufiger dafür aus, die Grenzen für Einwanderer zu çffnen und die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit zu intensivieren.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 84%

How Denationalization Divides Elites and Citizens

Teney

Helbling

2014

Zeitschrift Für Soziologie

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…A lack of legitimating discourse was identified as an obstacle to policy change or elite socialisation (Schmidt 2007;Kratochvíl 2008;Dimitrova 2002). The actor-centred approach to discursive practices revealed a range of European discourses in given policy areas (Thatcher 2004;Flockhart 2005;della Porta & Caiani 2006), pointing to the contested nature of Europeanisation across countries, policies and over time (Liebert 2008). However, this approach has not challenged the premise of normative congruence between discourse and policy outcome: actors' legitimating discourse will be favourable to policies advancing adaptation in line with EU rules and norms, and vice versa.…”

Section: Europeanisation and Discursive Institutionalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

When Enlargement Meets Common Foreign and Security Policy: Serbia's Europeanisation, Visa Liberalisation and the Kosovo Policy

Kostovicova

2013

Europe-Asia Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In: Europe-Asia Studies, 66 (1). pp. 67-87. Abstract:Applying discursive institutionalism, this article identifies a hitherto overlooked disconnect between rule adoption and implementation and their discursive denial as an example of 'shallow' Europeanisation. This empirical study of Serbia's visa liberalisation and implications for its Kosovo policy, resulting from the simultaneous pursuit of Enlargement and Common Foreign and Security Policy, demonstrates the European Union's leverage on policy, pointing to Serbia's compliance indicative of recognition of Kosovo's border, which is obscured by nationalist discourse on Serbia's territorial integrity. Such incoherent Europeanisation in policy and discursive 2 domains exposes limits to the explanatory purchase of rational institutionalism and sociological institutionalism.

show abstract

“…The concept was used to examine transitions from authoritarian regimes by Casper and Taylor (1996), while Hogan and Doyle's (2007) remoulded framework was used to examine changes in macroeconomic policy in Sweden and the US in a comparative historical context. Critical junctures have also been used to examine the differences between Danish politicians' and citizens' attitudes towards the European Union (EU) (Flockhart 2005). In relation to long term change, Collier and Collier (1991) and Mahoney (2001), in their analyses of regime change and trade union movement development in Latin and Central America, used critical juncture frameworks.…”

Section: A Brief Overview Of the Critical Junctures Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Country at a Crossroads: An Insight into How an Economic Crisis Led to Dramatic Policy Change

Hogan¹,

Hara²

2011

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this paper, we try to understand the nature of the changes to Mexican macroeconomic policy in the early 1980s using a critical juncture framework. The framework argues that three elements—crisis, ideational change, and radical policy change—must be identified in order for us to be able to declare, with some certainty, whether an event constitutes a critical juncture. Utilizing this framework, we will ascertain whether the changes to Mexican macroeconomic policy constituted a clean break with the past or were a continuation of previously established policy pathways.

show abstract

Critical Junctures and Social Identity Theory: Explaining the Gap between Danish Mass and Elite Attitudes to Europeanization

Cited by 32 publications

References 14 publications

How Denationalization Divides Elites and Citizens

How Denationalization Divides Elites and Citizens

When Enlargement Meets Common Foreign and Security Policy: Serbia's Europeanisation, Visa Liberalisation and the Kosovo Policy

Country at a Crossroads: An Insight into How an Economic Crisis Led to Dramatic Policy Change

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About