How to Reduce Disorder in European Identity Research

Autor: Viktoria Kaina
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: European Political Science. 12:184-196
ISSN: 1682-0983
1680-4333
DOI: 10.1057/eps.2012.39
Popis: The article aims at opening a debate by offering some ideas about how we can avoid analytical confusion in future inquiry on European collective identity. I discuss two important theoretical deficiencies that impede advancement in the research on this topic. These shortcomings are: (1) the two-level problem in analysing collective identities; and (2) the issue of equating ‘belonging to’ with ‘belonging together’. In doing so, I will also make some proposals on how we can deal with these problems. Finally, I present a few considerations on further research questions and point to several empirical desiderata.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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