Toward empirical assessment of the European demos and public sphere: comparing democratic value orientations of citizens and elites

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781785360916.00016" target="_blank" >10.4337/9781785360916.00016</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Toward empirical assessment of the European demos and public sphere: comparing democratic value orientations of citizens and elites

Original language description

The chapter empirically estimates the preconditions of European integration, the European demos, and European public sphere. Democracies are conflict resolution systems, they are defined by constructive solution of multiple natural political cleavages. The attitudes and values of their citizens should not be in a destructive antagonistic clash but, instead, in an agonistic, benign competition. The European demos was operationalized in terms of democratic spirit, tolerance and civility the public sphere was assessed by analysis of ideologies. The European Values Study (EVS) served as the data source (wave 4 with N=63 281 respondents). The results suggest that each of the 44 countries under study differs by its preconditions for democratic demos (as well as by nondemocratic skepticism, intolerant traditionalism or authoritarian activism) at the same time, there is a significant level of commonality e.g., in the countries of liberal Northwest, in the traditionalistic ex-soviet and South Eastern Europe, in the skeptical post-communist region which joined the EU, and in the authoritarian activism apparent in the countries of former Yugoslavia. The existence of public sphere was assessed by an analysis of ideologies representing various political orientations of European citizens. The ideologies appear to be fragmented by countries and by geopolitical regions—active Western democracy, post-communist moderate democracy and a passive democracy of the European Southeast Thus, as expected, rather than the existence of a general European public we observed partitioned ideology of individual countries or regions. Yet, at the same time, we identified significant clusters of secularized or religious democrats, which were particularly numerous among the elites. They appear as most instrumental in the formation of an agonistic system at the European level.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA15-11062S" target="_blank" >GA15-11062S: Psychosocial analysis of non-democratic character in a post-communist society: Empirical assessment of negative passivity and so called “bad mood”</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Integration, Diversity and the Making of a European Public Sphere

ISBN

978-1-78536-090-9

Number of pages of the result

26

Pages from-to

183-208

Number of pages of the book

245

Publisher name

Edward Elgar Publishing Limited

Place of publication

Northampton

UT code for WoS chapter

000411879800010