European Citizenship as a Standard of European Integration? Theoretical and Empirical Elements
European Citizenship as a Standard of European Integration? Theoretical and Empirical Elements

Author(s): Cristina Ilie Goga
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences, Sociology, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: Университет за национално и световно стопанство (УНСС)
Keywords: European Integration; European Citizenship
Summary/Abstract: The article is based upon the idea that collective identification with institutions beyond the nation state becomes a standard for measuring integration. Thus, we start the paper with the analysis of European integration theories, essential for the purpose of our work: Transactionalism and Neo¬functionalism, and also we investigate the concept of ‘European citizenship’, especially as a specific institution of the European construction. The second part of the paper analyses the results of a field research, conducted in the city of Craiova, and highlights the level of attachment of citizens from Craiova to the European citizenship.

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