The European Union in the Estonian Public Discourse

Vaaks Katri ()
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Vaaks Katri: Institute of International Relations Prague Nerudova 3, Prague 11850, Czech Republic

TalTech Journal of European Studies, 2013, vol. 3, issue 2, 50-67

Abstract: Debates about the democratic legitimacy of the European Union (EU) have been prevalent amongst scholars since its beginning. Students have analysed the legitimacy of the EU in terms of various normative criteria. But how is the EU legitimated in individual Member States and more so in an economic and sovereignty crisis when loyalties are particularly tested? The current study sheds light on it, scrutinising the conceptions associated with the EU in a country case of Estonia. Discourse analysis is used as a methodological tool to analyse the political discourse in printed media. The results indicate that the legitimation of the EU is derived from its output-oriented strategies, seeing the EU largely in instrumental terms.

Keywords: discourse analysis; Estonia; European Union; EU legitimacy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.2478/bjes-2013-0013

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