“The Eurozone Crisis and Citizen Engagement in EU Affairs” with Achim Hurrelmann

“The Eurozone Crisis and Citizen Engagement in EU Affairs” with Achim Hurrelmann

Categories: Lectures and Seminars

Friday, November 27, 2015

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Add to calendar

2420 R Richcraft Building

1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON

Contact Information

Achim Hurrelmann, 613-520-2600 x 2294, achim.hurrelmann@carleton.ca

Cost

Free

About this Event

Host Organization: CES, EURUS, BGINS
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Dr. Achim Hurrelmann will be presenting his paper “The Eurozone Crisis and Citizen Engagement in EU Affairs” on Friday, November 27th at 12pm in Room 2420 R River Building. The discussant for this paper will be Dr. Stephen White from Political Science.

Lecture Abstract: While the Eurozone crisis has contributed to Europeanization trends in the domestic politics of EU member states, it has not to the same extent triggered citizen mobilization in EU-level democratic procedures. This talk (based on a paper co-authored with Sebastian Baglioni) suggests that the weakness of supranational citizen mobilization is linked to factors that restrict the citizens’ receptiveness to EU-related messages: limited knowledge of the EU and a weak sense of political efficacy, a discursive framing that conceptualizes the EU as a consortium of member states rather than a supranational entity, and attributions of responsibility for the crisis that de-emphasize the role of EU policies. These factors constitute cultural opportunity structures that influence patterns of political engagement. They imply that the much-discussed “politicization” of European integration is, under present conditions, more likely to result in a renationalization than in a supranationalization of EU politics.

This lecture is co-sponsored by CES and EURUS. It will be presented as part of the CES Research Colloquium, held jointly with the BGINS Faculty Works-in-Progress Series.