Beyong the EU membership-non-membership dichotomny? Supranational identities among national EU decision-makers
By: TRONDAL, Jarle
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ArticlePublisher: June 2002Subject(s): Área de Livre Comércio | Nacionalismo | Forma de Estado | Comércio ExteriorJournal of European Public Policy 9, 3, p. 468-487Abstract: This article poses the following question: do national civil servante attending EU committees evoke supranational loyaties that transcend pre-establlished national and sectoral identities? Multiple institutional affiliantions often trigger multiple identitties. However, certain identities - like supranationalism are fostered under particular institutional conditions. Three hypotheses on supranationalism are proposed. First, supranationalism reflects the EU membership of each nation-state. Second, intensive and sustained participation on EU membership of among national civil servants leads to supranational allegiances among the paraticipants. Finally, supranationalism is associated with the general lack of national co-ordination prior to EU committee meetings. The emprirical analysis employs survey data . The main empirical observation are twofold. First, pre-established allegiances tend to exceed supranational identifications among national civil servants attending EU committeers. Second, supranational allegiances are primarily enacted among government officials from EU member states and among officials who participate intensively in EU commtees. Less empirical suppoert is provided for the argument that supranationalism reflects the lack of ex ant national co-ordination mechanisms
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This article poses the following question: do national civil servante attending EU committees evoke supranational loyaties that transcend pre-establlished national and sectoral identities? Multiple institutional affiliantions often trigger multiple identitties. However, certain identities - like supranationalism are fostered under particular institutional conditions. Three hypotheses on supranationalism are proposed. First, supranationalism reflects the EU membership of each nation-state. Second, intensive and sustained participation on EU membership of among national civil servants leads to supranational allegiances among the paraticipants. Finally, supranationalism is associated with the general lack of national co-ordination prior to EU committee meetings. The emprirical analysis employs survey data . The main empirical observation are twofold. First, pre-established allegiances tend to exceed supranational identifications among national civil servants attending EU committeers. Second, supranational allegiances are primarily enacted among government officials from EU member states and among officials who participate intensively in EU commtees. Less empirical suppoert is provided for the argument that supranationalism reflects the lack of ex ant national co-ordination mechanisms
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