A Primordial Attachment to the Nation? French and Irish Workers and Trade Unions in Past EU Referendum Debates.

ABSTRACT: We aim to contribute to a better understanding of the dynamics that are driving EU politicization and the rising Euroscepticism of workers and unions in the public sphere. One explanation frames the rise in Euroscepticism in cultural terms, emphasizing workers' alleged primordial attachment to their nation. A second uses socioeconomic frames, linking growing Euroscepticism to the increasingly neo-liberal direction of the EU. The weight of these competing frames in the referendum campaigns on the EU Constitution in France and the Lisbon Treaty and the Fiscal Treaty in Ireland cannot be measured easily, as the categorization of a phrase as socioeconomic or cultural is in itself subject to political classification struggles. We therefore presents the findings of an inductive lexical an

SUBMITTER: Bethoux E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6473535 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature