Overview
- Analyses the unique potential of solidarity to offer solutions for social problems, when other control mechanisms such as coercion or compensation fail
- Advances theoretical, methodological and empirical insights on the drivers of European solidarity
- Provides a novel theoretical concept of individual European solidarity, distinguishing between an attitudinal and a behavioral dimension
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology (PSEPS)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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About this book
This book explores the processes through which European solidarity is constructed. More specifically, it investigates how the media's framing of European identity can facilitate and/or impede the emergence of European solidarity on the individual level. Through an online experiment that tested the effect of two different media identity frames on individual solidarity during the European debt crisis, the author argues that the exposure to news articles using a value-based identity frame boosts solidarity compared to an economic identity frame.
This interdisciplinary work will be of interest to scholars of political sociology, political communication and political psychology, as well as any researchers who study European integration.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Christopher Starke is a Post-Doctoral Researcher of political communication at the Department of Social Sciences at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. He is also affiliated with the Düsseldorf Institute for Internet and Democracy (DIID).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: European Solidarity Under Scrutiny
Book Subtitle: Empirical Evidence for the Effects of Media Identity Framing
Authors: Christopher Starke
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67179-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67178-5Published: 16 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67181-5Published: 17 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-67179-2Published: 15 February 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-6016
Series E-ISSN: 2946-6024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 287
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Sociology, European Politics, Media Sociology