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“The Eurozone Crisis and Citizen Engagement in EU Affairs” with Achim Hurrelmann
November 27, 2015 at 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
| Location: | 2420 R Richcraft Hall |
| Cost: | Free |
| Audience: | Anyone |
| Key Contact: | Achim Hurrelmann |
| Contact Email: | achim.hurrelmann@carleton.ca |
This lecture is co-sponsored by CES and EURUS. It will be presented as part of the CES Research Colloquium, held jointly with the BGINS Faculty Works-in-Progress Series.
Dr. Achim Hurrelmann will be presenting his paper “The Eurozone Crisis and Citizen Engagement in EU Affairs” on Friday, November 27th at 12pm in Room 2420 R River Building. The discussant for this paper will be Dr. Stephen White from Political Science.
Lecture Abstract: While the Eurozone crisis has contributed to Europeanization trends in the domestic politics of EU member states, it has not to the same extent triggered citizen mobilization in EU-level democratic procedures. This talk (based on a paper co-authored with Sebastian Baglioni) suggests that the weakness of supranational citizen mobilization is linked to factors that restrict the citizens’ receptiveness to EU-related messages: limited knowledge of the EU and a weak sense of political efficacy, a discursive framing that conceptualizes the EU as a consortium of member states rather than a supranational entity, and attributions of responsibility for the crisis that de-emphasize the role of EU policies. These factors constitute cultural opportunity structures that influence patterns of political engagement. They imply that the much-discussed “politicization” of European integration is, under present conditions, more likely to result in a renationalization than in a supranationalization of EU politics.
About the Lecturer: Achim Hurrelmann is the Associate Director of CES, the Director of EURUS, and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science. He has recently been awarded Jean Monnet Chair in ‘Democracy in the European Union.’ His research mainly deals with the politics of the European Union, it focuses in particular on questions of legitimation and democratization in the European system of multilevel governance. His publications have appeared or are forthcoming in some of the leading journals in the field.