No Demos? Identities and Public Spheres in the Euro Crisis

Thomas Risse

Journal of Common Market Studies, 2014, vol. 52, issue 6, 1207-1215

Abstract: This article takes issue with the ‘no demos’ thesis about the European Union. Empirically speaking, a ‘demos’ requires a sense of community among the citizens, on the one hand, and a lively public spheres in which political issues are debated, on the other. It is argued in this article, first, that a majority of European citizens has developed dual identities – to their nation‐state and to Europe – and this Europeanization of national identities is sufficient to sustain carefully crafted (re‐)distributive policies on the European level. Second, the euro crisis has strongly increased the politicization of national public spheres and has also led to their growing Europeanization with regard to issue salience and to the actors represented.

Date: 2014
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