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NATIONAL IDENTITY AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION: A CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC OPINION
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NATIONAL IDENTITY AND EUROPEAN
INTEGRATION
A contextual analysis of public opinion*
Liesbet Hooghe
Gary Marks
Associate Professor of Political Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hamilton Hall #3265
Chapel Hill NC 27599
## email not listed ##
Professor of Political Science and Director
of the UNC Center for European Studies
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
223 E. Franklin Street
Chapel Hill NC 27599
marks
@unc.edu
Abstract
This paper builds on theories of economic calculus, political cueing, and identity to explain public opinion on European integration. We test hypotheses in a multi-level analysis of Eurobarometer data, and conclude that identity is by far the most potent influence. The European Union is a supranational polity having extensive authority over those who live in its territory, and as such it engages pre-existing group loyalties, and in particular, national identity. We theorize how the political consequences of identity are contested and shaped— that is to say, politically constructed—in national contexts.
* For comments and advice we are grateful to Stefano Bartolini, Tanja Börzel, Christophe Crombez, Gerda Falkner, Rusanna Gaber, Peter Hall, Adrienne Héritier, Ulrich Kohler, Ken Kollman, David Lake, Christiane Lemke, Jane Mansfield, Thomas Risse, Edeltraud Roller, Dieter Rucht, Alexander Trechsel, Anna Triandafyllidou, and Bernhard Wessels. Earlier versions were presented at the European University Institute, Florence; the Center for European Studies at Harvard University; Humboldt University, Berlin; the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna; the Social Science Research Center, Berlin. We received institutional support from the Center for European Studies at the University of North Carolina, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Social Science Research Center in Berlin.
Prepared for delivery at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
August 28 - August 31, 2003.
Copyright by the American Political Science Association
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NATIONAL IDENTITY AND EUROPEAN
INTEGRATION
A contextual analysis of public opinion*
Liesbet Hooghe
Gary Marks
Associate Professor of Political Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hamilton Hall #3265
Chapel Hill NC 27599
## email not listed ##
Professor of Political Science and Director
of the UNC Center for European Studies
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
223 E. Franklin Street
Chapel Hill NC 27599
marks
@unc.edu
Abstract
This paper builds on theories of economic calculus, political cueing, and identity to explain
public opinion on European integration. We test hypotheses in a multi-level analysis of
Eurobarometer data, and conclude that identity is by far the most potent influence. The
European Union is a supranational polity having extensive authority over those who live in its
territory, and as such it engages pre-existing group loyalties, and in particular, national identity.
We theorize how the political consequences of identity are contested and shaped— that is to
say, politically constructed—in national contexts.
* For comments and advice we are grateful to Stefano Bartolini, Tanja Börzel, Christophe
Crombez, Gerda Falkner, Rusanna Gaber, Peter Hall, Adrienne Héritier, Ulrich Kohler, Ken
Kollman, David Lake, Christiane Lemke, Jane Mansfield, Thomas Risse, Edeltraud Roller,
Dieter Rucht, Alexander Trechsel, Anna Triandafyllidou, and Bernhard Wessels. Earlier
versions were presented at the European University Institute, Florence; the Center for European
Studies at Harvard University; Humboldt University, Berlin; the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor; the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna; the Social Science Research Center, Berlin.
We received institutional support from the Center for European Studies at the University of
North Carolina, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Social Science Research
Center in Berlin.
Prepared for delivery at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
August 28 - August 31, 2003.
Copyright by the American Political Science Association
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