Does more knowledge about the European Union lead to a stronger European identity? A comparative analysis among adolescents in 21 European member states

Verhaegen, Soetkin; Hooghe, Marc

doi:10.1080/13511610.2014.1000836

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“…More sophisticated reasoning that combines different vote motives and strategies may drive split-ticket voting. Also, citizens with a higher educational level, who know more about politics and who are more interested in politics, are more likely to be in favour of EU integration and have a stronger European identity (Fligstein, 2008;Verhaegen & Hooghe, 2015). Political sophistication could thus potentially moderate the relationship between attitudes about and identifications with the EU and split-ticket voting.…”

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“…Citizens employ proxies rooted in attitudes towards domestic politics in their attitudes towards European integration (Anderson, 1998;Duchesne et al, 2013). Moreover, citizens who have more trust in political institutions tend to identify more strongly as European (Verhaegen & Hooghe, 2015). Trust in political institutions could thus moderate as well the relationship between EU-specific vote motives and split-ticket voting.…”

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Looking for the European Voter: Split-Ticket Voting in the Belgian Regional and European Elections of 2009 and 2014

Kelbel

Ingelgom

Verhaegen

2016

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While European elections are often seen as remote from EU issues, considerations specifically linked to the EU came to the forefront in the wake of the 2014 European elections: the economic and financial crisis, the new process of designation of the European Commission President, and the alleged increase of Eurosceptic votes. This increased salience of political debates about the EU asks for a reconsideration of the 'second-order nature' of European elections. In this context, as in 2009, the Belgian electorate voted for the regional and European levels on the very same day. Belgian voters were thus offered the opportunity to split their ticket between both levels. This allows comparing the occurrence and determinants of these 'immediate switching' behaviours in 2014 with those of the presumably less politicized EP elections in 2009. We do that by employing the 2009 and 2014 PartiRep Election Study data. On the one hand, the article shows that split-ticket voting cannot be explained by economic voting, European identity, and attitudes towards integration in 2014. On the other hand, the unique configuration of the Belgian elections enables us to observe that the introduction of Spitzenkandidaten did enhance split-ticket voting for voters who could directly vote for this candidate (in Flanders), while this did not increase split-ticket voting among voters who could only indirectly support the candidate (in Wallonia).

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Looking for the European Voter: Split-Ticket Voting in the Belgian Regional and European Elections of 2009 and 2014

Kelbel

Ingelgom

Verhaegen

2016

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“…All former communist countries entered the EU much more recently (2004)(2005)(2006)(2007) than those countries without a communist past and there is evidence that late accession is significantly positively associated with European identity (Verhaegen et al, 2014). Previous studies also established that Euroscepticism at the country-level is negatively associated with European identity (Keating, 2016;Verhaegen et al, 2013;Verhaegen & Hooghe, 2015). Because Euroscepticism is conceptually similar to trust in EU institutions and we wanted to be consistent in our measures across levels, we used country-average levels of trust in EU institutions as a proxy for country-level Euroscepticism.…”

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Contextual moderators of the link between national and European identity among European youth

Jugert¹,

Šerek²

2017

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Identification with Europe can constitute an important part of psychological citizenship for European citizens. From a self-categorization perspective, higher-order (e.g., with Europe) and lower order subgroup identities (e.g., with the nation) may interfere with each other if they are seen as incompatible. We were interested in contextual moderators at school and country level of youth' national identity on identification with Europe. We used multi-level regression analyses based on data from the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS, 2009). Results showed strong positive effects of national identity at the individual, and classroom-level on European identity. However, main effects of national identity at the individual level were qualified by number of interactions with contextual-level measures of trust in the EU and indicators of social and economic inequality. Results point to the powerful effects of context in shaping the relationship between national and European identity.

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“…М. Хуга «Ведет ли большее знание о ЕС к более сильной европейской идентичности?» [3], которая определяет соотношение знания и идентичности (или самоопределения). Европейские авторы ставят перед собой цель ответить на вопрос, насколько успешна европейская политическая идентичность и как можно помочь гражданам ЕС почувствовать себя больше «европейцами»?…”

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The evolution of European political identity as a social construct of the EU

Benvenuti¹

2018

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Бикерниеце Анна аспирант факультета международных отношений Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета ЭВОЛЮЦИЯ ЕВРОПЕЙСКОЙ ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОЙ ИДЕНТИЧНОСТИ КАК СОЦИАЛЬНОГО КОНСТРУКТА ЕС Аннотация: Статья посвящена концепции политической идентичности в целом и европейской идее в частности. Автор ставит своей целью рассмотреть понятие идентичности и проследить эволюцию формирования различных аспектов идентичности в Европейском союзе, используя результаты опросов «Евробарометра». В статье проанализирован теоретический аспект идентичности -определены материальная и нематериальная составляющие как важные аспекты для формирования позитивной идентичности. Рассмотрен процесс эволюции представлений об идентичности в Европейском союзе. Ключевым источником информации для анализа служит статистика «Евробарометра» за 2003-2017 гг. Объект исследования -европейское общество, мнения граждан Европейского союза, полученные в ходе опросов общественного мнения. Предмет исследования -наднациональная европейская политическая идентичность как социальный конструкт Европейского союза и механизмы ее формирования. Статья показывает, как разные аспекты идентичности могут служить интегративным и дезинтегративным процессам. Использованы методы статистического анализа и сравнительный анализ показателей эволюции идентичности в Европейском союзе в рамках конструктивного подхода к понятию «идентичность». На основании проведенного исследования выведена формула устойчивой идентичности, она применена к анализу категорий европейской идеи по результатам опросов «Евробарометра». Автор делает вывод, что европейское общество все больше стремится к использованию «материальной» составляющей идентичности и отходит от размытых идей и ценностей.Ключевые слова: Европейский союз, политическая идентичность, европейская идея, социальный конструкт, «Евробарометр», опросы общественного мнения, интеграция, дезинтеграция, кризис идентичности. Summary: The paper deals with the concept of political identity in general and the European idea in particular. The author examines the notion of identity and investigates the evolution of the various aspects of identity in the European Union using Eurobarometer surveys. The research analyzes the theoretical base for identity explaining material and ideational components of the notion which are the key to create the positive identity. Besides, the author presents the evolving ideas about identity in the EU by means of Eurobarometer statistics collected in 2003-2017. The research considers the European society, the opinions of European Union citizens based on the Eurobarometer data. The scope of the study is represented by the supranational European political identity as a social construct of the EU and the mechanisms of its creation. The paper demonstrates how different aspects of identity can lead to integrative and disintegrative processes. The statistical and comparative analysis of the evolution of identity in the EU is applied as a part of a constructive approach to the concept of identity. A formula of sustainable identi...

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Does more knowledge about the European Union lead to a stronger European identity? A comparative analysis among adolescents in 21 European member states

Cited by 30 publications

References 45 publications

Looking for the European Voter: Split-Ticket Voting in the Belgian Regional and European Elections of 2009 and 2014

Looking for the European Voter: Split-Ticket Voting in the Belgian Regional and European Elections of 2009 and 2014

Contextual moderators of the link between national and European identity among European youth

The evolution of European political identity as a social construct of the EU

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