Rünz / Schmitt / Marx Making European Citizens?

How Participation in Model European Union Conferences Influences European Identity, Support of the EU and Political Involvement
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-8288-6007-0
Verlag: Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 19, 139 Seiten

Reihe: Politik begreifen. Schriften zu theoretischen und empirischen Problemen der Politikwissenschaft

Model European Union (MEU) is a simulation of European politics that provides participants with a hands-on experience of the decision-making process of the European Union (EU). Hundreds of young Europeans meet each year at multi-day MEU conferences in cities across Europe. Does this experience have a measurable and lasting impact on participants' knowledge about and attitudes towards the EU? And if so, how can we theoretically and empirically explain these effects? Paul Rünz develops a framework for the analysis of European citizenship and discusses several mechanisms that could account for attitude changes of MEU participants. To answer his research question, he employs a quasi-experimental design with quantitative data from surveys with participants of MEU conferences in Strasbourg, France and in Mainz, Germany.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rünz, Paul

Schmitt, Annette

Marx, Johannes

Kunz, Volker