CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Pricop, Cristina Ioana |
|---|---|
| Title | European Self-portrait: Evidence from Citizens' Dialogues |
| Summary | The question that this paper endeavours to explore is how the EU communicates itself to its citizens. More precisely, it inquires into how the EU understands and enacts its democratic relationship with the European people, and how it portrays its identity and its values. It does so by reviewing official EC documents on communication policies, the manner in which Citizens’ Dialogues have been recently organised and subsequently focusing on the Citizens’ Dialogues held with one of the highest-ranking officials in the European Commission, First Vice-President (FVP) Frans Timmermans. The theoretical and methodological approaches that inform the analysis are discourse theory and discourse analysis respectively. The analysis uncovers the internal inconsistencies between discourse (as text and oral communication) and practice, but also within the EU narrative as embodied by FVP Timmermans. He strives to present one overarching coherent image of the EU and of Europeanness yet builds it on contradictory values. Finally, the Dialogues enlarge the sphere of participation and of the political, while reinforcing discourses of (internal and external) exclusion. |
| Supervisor | Meszerics, Tamás |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/pricop_cristina.pdf |
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