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Provides a major empirical analysis of differing attitudes to European integration in three of Europe's most important countries.
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This book provides a major empirical analysis of differing attitudes to European integration in three of Europe's most important countries: Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom. From its beginnings, the European Union has resounded with debate over whether to move toward a federal or intergovernmental system. However, Juan Diez Medrano argues that empirical analyses of support for integration - by specialists in international relations, comparative politics, and survey research - have failed to explain why some countries lean toward federalism whereas others lean toward intergovernmentalism.By applying frame analysis to a unique set of primary sources (in-depth interviews, newspaper articles, novels, history texts, political speeches, and survey data), Diez Medrano demonstrates the role of major historical events in transforming national cultures and thus creating new opportunities for political transformation. Clearly written and rigorously argued, "Framing Europe" explains differences in support for European integration between the three countries studied in light of the degree to which each realized its particular "supranational project" outside Western Europe.Only the United Kingdom succeeded in consolidating an empire and retaining it after World War II, while Germany and Spain each abandoned their corresponding aspirations. These differences meant that these countries' populations developed different degrees of identification as Europeans and, partly in consequence, different degrees of support for the building of a federal Europe.
Contents
List of Figures ix List of Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii One IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, GERMANY, AND SPAIN 19 Two Ways of Seeing European Integration 21 Three Good Reasons for and Attitudes toward European Integration 65 Four Journalists and European Integration 106 PART II: as a Mirror with Two Reflections 159 Six West Germany: Between Self-Doubt and Pragmatism 179 Seven East Germany: A Different Past, a Different Memory 200 Eight The United Kingdom: Reluctant Europeans 214 Nine Frames and Attitudes toward European Integration: A Statistical Validation 236 Ten Conclusions 249 Appendix 1 Selection and Distribution of Respondents, and the Interviewing Process 263 Appendix 2 Newspaper Selection, Sampling, and Coding Procedures for Editorials and Opinion Pieces 267 Appendix 3 Frames on European Integration: A Discriminant Analysis, by City 270 Appendix 4 Sources for Part II: Novels, History Textbooks, and Head of State Addresses 271 Notes 277 References 299 Index 315
