Citizens of Europe?

The Emergence of a Mass European Identity

• Author(s): M. Bruter,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 221
• ISBN_10: 0230501532
  ISBN_13: 9780230501539
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / World / European , Social Science / Sociology / General , Political Science / International Relations / General , Political Science / General , Political Science / Political Ideologies / General ,

Description:... This book shows empirically for the first time how a mass European identity has emerged across the EU member states between 1970 and the present day. Beyond this novel approach, it also offers a whole new theory of political identities, based on two 'civic' and 'cultural' components. Michael Bruter shows how multiple identities reinforce - rather than exclude - each other, and studies in depth the unsuspected impact of the media and political institutions on the emergence of new political identities.