Citizens of Europe? examines the fascinating emergence of a new European identity: how fast is it emerging? What have been the roles of the media and public institutions in fostering or impeding it? What does this mean for ordinary European citizens? This book shows empirically for the first time how a mass European identity has emerged across the EU member states between 1970 and the present day. Beyond this novel approach, it also offers a whole new theory of political identities, based on two 'civic' and 'cultural' components. Michael Bruter shows how multiple identities reinforce - rather than exclude - each other, and studies in depth the unsuspected impact of the media and political institutions on the emergence of new political identities.
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
MICHAEL BRUTER is Lecturer in European Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. His work specializes in the study of European identity, public opinion, electoral behaviour, and extreme right politics. He has pubished numerous articles and conducted several research projects in these fields and various areas of European Union and comparative European politics.
Description
Citizens of Europe? examines the fascinating emergence of a new European identity: how fast is it emerging? What have been the roles of the media and public institutions in fostering or impeding it? What does this mean for ordinary European citizens? This book shows empirically for the first time how a mass European identity has emerged across the EU member states between 1970 and the present day. Beyond this novel approach, it also offers a whole new theory of political identities, based on two 'civic' and 'cultural' components. Michael Bruter shows how multiple identities reinforce - rather than exclude - each other, and studies in depth the unsuspected impact of the media and political institutions on the emergence of new political identities.
Contents
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
Authors
MICHAEL BRUTER is Lecturer in European Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. His work specializes in the study of European identity, public opinion, electoral behaviour, and extreme right politics. He has pubished numerous articles and conducted several research projects in these fields and various areas of European Union and comparative European politics.
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