The
Changing Face of European Identity:
Edited by
Richard Robyn
Department of Political
Science
Kent State University
Kent, OH 44242
Ph. 330-672-8944 (o.)
Ph. 330-405-9861 (h.)
Email: rrobyn@kent.edu
ABSTRACT
The Changing Face
of European Identity:
Drawing upon systematic research using Q
Methodology in seven countries in Europe, this volume presents results of the
most extensive effort yet at cross-cultural, subjective assessment of national
and supranational identity. The studies attempt to explain how the European
Union, as the most visible experiment in mass national identity change in the
contemporary world, influences how Europeans think about their political
affiliations.
Q Methodology is utilized as the basic
approach for all of the studies. To achieve optimum cross-cultural comparisons,
study instruments were all uniformly constructed across the cultural spectrum
but translated for each locale.
Studies were conducted primarily in the
spring and summer of 2001. The respondent sample (P-Set) included more than
three hundred participants from Denmark, France, Germany, the United Kingdom,
Italy, Netherlands, and Sweden.
Results of completed studies are presented in
separate chapters, including specific (supra)national identity types
discovered. A concluding chapter summarizes results and address the
implications of the research for political analyses and the possibilities for
future European political configurations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I.
Introduction .
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II. Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
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III. Beyond Duality: Danes’ Views on Denmark and the European Union 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Kim Christian Schrøder
Søren Esben Hansen
IV. Being in Europe: Pluralism and Patriotism in England and Scotland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Una McCormack
V. Supranational Identity Emerging in France, Nationalism Submergent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
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VI. Steadfastly European?: German (Supra)National Identity in a Rapidly Changing Europe . . . . . . . . . . 236
De Forest Colegrove
VII. Italian Multiple Identities . . . . . . . . . . .277
Andrea Pitasi
Jaia Pasquini
Maria Francesca
Massoni
VIII. European Identity Frames in the Netherlands . . 310
Christ'l De Landtsheer
Craig Carroll
Ralph Hekscher
IX. Northern Ireland, Identity and Europe . . . . . . 363
John Barry
X. Being a Swede in a Transforming European Setting: The Structures of an Emerging Swedish Supra-national Identity in the 21st Century. . . . . . . . . . . 364
Tom Bryder
Daniel
Silander
Charlotte
Wallin
XI. Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
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Contributors
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