Integrating Indifference: A Comparative, Qualitative and Quantitative Approach to the Legitimacy of European Integration (Ecpr Monographs Series) - Softcover

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Integrating Indifference investigates the political legitimacy of European integration from an empirical, or "internal," point of view by focusing on citizens' subjective perceptions. The text contributes to the study of the processes of acceptance or rejection connected to current European integration practices and their possible politicization.

The book seeks to ameliorate our understanding of the lack of salience of European issues for a growing part of the public. Drawing on new evidence from survey data and focus groups, it undermines the presumed polarization of citizens' attitudes towards the E.U, suggesting the alleged break in the "permissive consensus" among citizens should be considered in a different light since it is not clear that the popular mood toward Europe is the mirror image of the dissensus among elites. Rather, this book argues for the incorporation of citizens' indifference into any reflection on the legitimacy of the European integration process and explores the various faces of citizens' indifference toward the E.U.

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