How do Europeans see Europe? What principles guide people's approval or rejection of EU projects? Are they 'Europeans by heart' or 'nice-weather Europeans'? How do citizens perceive the shift from economic integration to political unification? What are chances and risks of EU legitimacy? Angelika Scheuer gives empirical answers in her study of European legitimacy based on the European Elections Study of 1994. She demonstrates that publics of the EU-12 display a similar,well-structured European belief system. This enables comparative measurement and makes the EU a laboratory for hypothesis testing. The modelling of legitimacy processes discovers cross-country differences in the evolution of European legitimacy. Distinct legitimation styles e...
How do citizens make sense of the European Union? How far do citizens understand themselves as citiz...
The extensive deepening and widening of the European Union that has taken place during the 1990's h...
The financial crisis has rekindled debates about the legitimacy of the European Union and, in partic...
One of the last major political change in the History of Europe is without any doubt the constructio...
Beginning with a brief overview of the literature on legitimacy, support and Euroscepticism(Section ...
What are the appropriate criteria for assessing the legitimacy of the EU? This article uses data fro...
In this paper, we look at the relationship between European identification and political support for...
How severe a problem is what many call the ‘democratic deficit’ of the EU? Despite a voluminous theo...
This paper analyses the prominence, content and justifications of Euroscepticism as a form of EU leg...
Using a brief overview of the literature on legitimacy, European public opinion and Euroscepticism (...
The thesis compares national perspectives on the legitimacy of the European Union. It develops a def...
Theoretical and empirical research on the political legitimacy of the European Union has been one of...
Legitimating the European Union focuses on the notions of political legitimacy in the European Union...
In the would-be policy of the European Union (EU), legitimacy is experienced as a problematical phen...
The confidence that Informed Citizenry and their Economic Elites have in the European Union were ass...
How do citizens make sense of the European Union? How far do citizens understand themselves as citiz...
The extensive deepening and widening of the European Union that has taken place during the 1990's h...
The financial crisis has rekindled debates about the legitimacy of the European Union and, in partic...
One of the last major political change in the History of Europe is without any doubt the constructio...
Beginning with a brief overview of the literature on legitimacy, support and Euroscepticism(Section ...
What are the appropriate criteria for assessing the legitimacy of the EU? This article uses data fro...
In this paper, we look at the relationship between European identification and political support for...
How severe a problem is what many call the ‘democratic deficit’ of the EU? Despite a voluminous theo...
This paper analyses the prominence, content and justifications of Euroscepticism as a form of EU leg...
Using a brief overview of the literature on legitimacy, European public opinion and Euroscepticism (...
The thesis compares national perspectives on the legitimacy of the European Union. It develops a def...
Theoretical and empirical research on the political legitimacy of the European Union has been one of...
Legitimating the European Union focuses on the notions of political legitimacy in the European Union...
In the would-be policy of the European Union (EU), legitimacy is experienced as a problematical phen...
The confidence that Informed Citizenry and their Economic Elites have in the European Union were ass...
How do citizens make sense of the European Union? How far do citizens understand themselves as citiz...
The extensive deepening and widening of the European Union that has taken place during the 1990's h...
The financial crisis has rekindled debates about the legitimacy of the European Union and, in partic...