Hegemonies of Legitimation (eBook)
X, 232 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-57050-5 (ISBN)
The legitimacy of the European Union is a much studied and highly contested subject. Unlike other works, this book does not engage in another review of the shifts of public opinion and perception regarding the EU. Instead, it offers a different and innovative perspective by focusing on constructions of legitimacy in the European Commission. Starting from the premise that legitimacy is discursively constructed, the book engages in a fine-grained analysis of legitimacy discourses in the European Commission since the early 1970s. Embedded in a poststructuralist theoretical framework, Hegemonies of Legitimation also sheds light on the conditions that made radical shifts of legitimacy discourses possible, and illustrates how these discursive shifts paved the way for different types of legitimation policies. As such, the book maps and reconstructs the historically variable discursive landscape of competing articulations of what legitimacy signifies in the case of the EC/EU, and provides us with a detailed picture of the history of the Commission's struggle for legitimacy.
Dominika Biegon is a Parliamentary Assistant at the European Parliament, Belgium, and was previously Research Associate at the Collaborative Research Centre on 'Transformations of the State' at the University of Bremen, Germany.
The legitimacy of the European Union is a much studied and highly contested subject. Unlike other works, this book does not engage in another review of the shifts of public opinion and perception regarding the EU. Instead, it offers a different and innovative perspective by focusing on constructions of legitimacy in the European Commission. Starting from the premise that legitimacy is discursively constructed, the book engages in a fine-grained analysis of legitimacy discourses in the European Commission since the early 1970s. Embedded in a poststructuralist theoretical framework, Hegemonies of Legitimation also sheds light on the conditions that made radical shifts of legitimacy discourses possible, and illustrates how these discursive shifts paved the way for different types of legitimation policies. As such, the book maps and reconstructs the historically variable discursive landscape of competing articulations of what legitimacy signifies in the case of the EC/EU, and provides us with a detailed picture of the history of the Commission's struggle for legitimacy.
Dominika Biegon is a Parliamentary Assistant at the European Parliament, Belgium, and was previously Research Associate at the Collaborative Research Centre on 'Transformations of the State' at the University of Bremen, Germany.
1. Introduction: Legitimacy as a Discursive Battleground in the European Commission2. Discourse Dynamics3. Reconstructing Meanings of a Legitimate EC/EU: Discursive Metaphor Analysis4. Change and Continuity of Legitimacy Discourses in the European Commission between 1973 and 20135. The Failed Hegemonic Project: The Identity Discourse in the 1980s6. Democracy as a Successful Hegemonic Project in the 1990s7. Conclusion: Towards and Alternative Horizon – Democracy and Dispute
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.3.2017 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Transformations of the State | Transformations of the State |
| Zusatzinfo | X, 232 p. |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| Schlagworte | Democracy • desegregation • Discourse analysis • Discourse Theory • EU legitimacy • Europe • European Commission • European Integration • European Integrations Studies • European Union • European Union (EU) • European Union Politics • hegemony • Identity • Institution • Integration • International Relations • Nation • Political Sociology • poststructuralist theory |
| ISBN-10 | 1-137-57050-4 / 1137570504 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-57050-5 / 9781137570505 |
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