Convergence or divergence?
| Autor: | Pepijn van Houwelingen, Paul Dekker, Jurjen Iedema, Plamen Akaliyski |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Sociology |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
EUROPE
media_common.quotation_subject Public opinion 050601 international relations Politics Political science European integration 050602 political science & public administration media_common.cataloged_instance European Union European union media_common business.industry Political values 05 social sciences Comparative politics Convergence (economics) Political culture 0506 political science CULTURAL-VALUES Political Science and International Relations IDENTITY Economic system business Autonomy |
| Zdroj: | Comparative European Politics, 19(4), 452-470. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. |
| ISSN: | 1472-4790 |
| Popis: | Basic core political values differ widely across Europe. From a European integration perspective, a gradual convergence in core political values across European countries would be beneficial. Desirably, the direction of any possible European value convergence would be also in accordance with the values stipulated by the European Union (EU). Based on European Values Study (EVS) data from 1990 to 2017, we assess the developments among 18 EU countries with regard to public opinion on nine political value indicators, comprising three core political values: equality, individual autonomy, and cosmopolitanism. The differences and the dynamics of change in core political values between these 18 European countries are considerable. Our investigation arrives at contradictory conclusions about the outcome of the temporal development, depending on the political value we analyze. EU countries have converged on equality and cosmopolitanism values, but diverged on individual autonomy. The overall change in cosmopolitanism is, however, not in the direction the EU intends, as the countries have become more skeptical of EU enlargement. The trend in individual autonomy is in an EU-desired direction ('same direction'), but is much slower in the former socialist countries ('different speed'), which results in divergence on an EU-wide scale. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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