The making of the Europeans

Połońska-Kimunguyi, Eva; Kimunguyi, Patrick

doi:10.1177/1748048511412283

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“…Unfortunately, data from the European Social Survey (2018) revealed that, while national attachment is mostly high among Europeans, EU attachment is moderate (see also Plescia et al, 2021). 7 Accordingly, Polonska-Kimunguyi and Kimunguyi (2011) argued that those who advocate for the EU have failed to create a solid emotional connection between European citizens and the Union. Still, research has identified ways to promote EU attachment.…”

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The use of identity-related frames in electoral pledges and its effects on Euroscepticism in France and Germany

Bogado

Bytzek

Steffens

2023

European Union Politics

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National identification strength is a key Euroscepticism driver. We examine how politicians’ framing of immigration policies increases the salience of different national identity representations and its relationship with support for the European Union (EU) in a two-waves between-subject survey-experiment using French and German samples. As predicted, exposure to assimilation frames (directly for the French sample or via frame perception for both samples) increased the salience of ethnocultural national identity representations. Additionally, as hypothesised, higher ethnocultural representations salience following assimilation frames exposure was related to higher Euroscepticism. However, feeling emotionally attached to the EU reduced this negative impact of ethnocultural national identity representations on EU attitudes. We discuss the role of ethnocultural nationalism in Euroscepticism and the importance of fostering stronger emotional ties to the EU.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The use of identity-related frames in electoral pledges and its effects on Euroscepticism in France and Germany

Bogado

Bytzek

Steffens

2023

European Union Politics

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“…For example, according to Čorkalo and Kamenov (2003), national identity is linked to national pride, sense of belonging, and loyalty to the country or state. National identity building is linked to national media influence (e.g., national television; Polonska-Kimunguyi & Kimunguyi, 2011). Moreover, national identity is positively correlated with social cohesion (Holtug, 2017).…”

Section: National Identitymentioning

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Intergroup conflict and national identity: The role of exposure to verbal assault, media influences, and desire for self‐reliance

Amin

Abdelrahman

Hasan

et al. 2022

Anal Soc Iss & Public Policy

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This study examined the roles of perceived influence of the media, exposure to verbal assault, and desire for self‐reliance on national identity. Using an online self‐reported questionnaire from Qatari college students (N = 293). Mediation analysis revealed that both perceived media influence and desire for self‐reliance fully mediated the effects of exposure to verbal assault on national identity. The findings support the efficacy of strategies which targeted the development and implementation of media and economic programs fostering the construction and/or strengthening of a sense of national identity in Qatar during the Gulf crisis.

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“…This triple civic, spatial and ethnocultural domain of identification with Europe has been addressed by EC/EU policies in efforts to foster a European identity among the citizenship. For the most part, however, the initiatives undertaken have been beset of ambiguities [27], and European officials have recurrently acknowledged that public opinion does not understand the EU, emphasising the need to improve, enable, engage and empower citizens to exercise their right to participate in the democratic life of the Union [36].…”

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University students’ representations of Europe and self-identification as Europeans: a synthesis of qualitative evidence for future policy formulation

2020

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The current European context is characterised by the emergence of socio-political tensions that threaten to derail the cohesion objectives traditionally promoted by the authorities of the European Union. With EU citizenship in the shadow of Brexit, the fear of dismemberment of the current Europe of the 28 looms over a renewed debate on concepts like European identity, European citizenship or EU legitimacy and the involvement of its constituents in European affairs, as well as the role of education for promoting democratic awareness among young Europeans. This work aims to collect, appraise and synthesise qualitative evidence obtained in primary research exploring the perceptions of European university students about their civic and cultural identity. This systematic analysis sets out to identify predictors of positive self-identification with the EU and its institutions, focusing on the impact that different educational interventions have had on the attitudes and perceptions expressed by university students, and the importance of foreign language learning in the results obtained. The authors report their assessment of quality of the findings in a Cochrane-style qualitative evidence synthesis (QES), based on the GRADE-CERQual (Confidence in Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research) method. The 12 informed findings described in this study support decision-making in future education policy formulation.

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The making of the Europeans

Cited by 15 publications

References 19 publications

The use of identity-related frames in electoral pledges and its effects on Euroscepticism in France and Germany

The use of identity-related frames in electoral pledges and its effects on Euroscepticism in France and Germany

Intergroup conflict and national identity: The role of exposure to verbal assault, media influences, and desire for self‐reliance

University students’ representations of Europe and self-identification as Europeans: a synthesis of qualitative evidence for future policy formulation

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