Hegemonies of Legitimation: Discourse Dynamics in the European Commission

Author:   Dominika Biegon
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
ISBN:  

9781137570499


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   07 April 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Hegemonies of Legitimation: Discourse Dynamics in the European Commission


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The legitimacy of the European Union is a much studied and highly contested subject. Unlike other works, this book does not engage in another review of the shifts of public opinion and perception regarding the EU. Instead, it offers a different and innovative perspective by focusing on constructions of legitimacy in the European Commission. Starting from the premise that legitimacy is discursively constructed, the book engages in a fine-grained analysis of legitimacy discourses in the European Commission since the early 1970s. Embedded in a poststructuralist theoretical framework, Hegemonies of Legitimation also sheds light on the conditions that made radical shifts of legitimacy discourses possible, and illustrates how these discursive shifts paved the way for different types of legitimation policies. As such, the book maps and reconstructs the historically variable discursive landscape of competing articulations of what legitimacy signifies in the case of the EC/EU, and provides us with a detailed picture of the history of the Commission's struggle for legitimacy.

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Author:   Dominika Biegon
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   4.091kg
ISBN:  

9781137570499


ISBN 10:   1137570490
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   07 April 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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.

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