Dominika Biegon, Dominika Biegon

Hegemonies of Legitimation

Discourse Dynamics in the European Commission

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Produktbeschreibung

What does the European Commission mean when it talks about legitimacy? Dominika Biego? shows that the meanings of legitimacy have varied over time in the institutions of the European Union, and offers a fine-grained analysis of the European Commission's struggle for legitimacy since the early 1970s.

Produktdetails

• Transformations of the State
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-57049-9
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781137570499
• ISBN-10: 1137570490
• Artikelnr.: 44031932

Autorenporträt

Dominika Biegon is a Parliamentary Assistant at the European Parliament, Belgium, and was previously Research Associate at the Collaborative Research Centre on 'Transformations of the State' at the University of Bremen, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Legitimacy as a Discursive Battleground in the European Commission
2. Discourse Dynamics
3. Reconstructing Meanings of a Legitimate EC/EU: Discursive Metaphor Analysis
4. Change and Continuity of Legitimacy Discourses in the European Commission between 1973 and 2013
5. The Failed Hegemonic Project: The Identity Discourse in the 1980s
6. Democracy as a Successful Hegemonic Project in the 1990s
7. Conclusion: Towards and Alternative Horizon - Democracy and Dispute