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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- EU legitimacy
- European Integrations Studies
- International Relations
- poststructuralist theory
- discourse analysis
- discourse theory
- political sociology
- democracy
- desegregation
- Europe
- European Commission
- European Integration
- European Union
- European Union (EU)
- hegemony
- identity
- Institution
- Integration
- international relations
- Nation
- european union politics
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hegemonies of Legitimation
Book Subtitle: Discourse Dynamics in the European Commission
Authors: Dominika BiegoĊ
Series Title: Transformations of the State
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137570505
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57049-9Published: 07 April 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-57050-5Published: 28 March 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 232
Topics: Political Sociology, European Culture, European Union Politics, International Relations, Political Science, Area Studies