Autore
Newell, James L.

Titolo
Meanings and Messages. Social Democrats and the EU's Legitimation Crisis in the 2019 Election Campaign
Periodico
Comunicazione politica - ComPol
Anno: 2019 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 301 - Pagina finale: 320

Our point of departure is the decline of the «permissive consensus» and growing polarisation on Europe evident in the outcome of the 2019 European parliament elections, and within social-democratic parties. Against this background, we first discuss the meaning of support for European integration – distinguishing «Europeanism» and «critical Europeanism» from «Euroscepticism». We then make a first attempt to map the terrain of critical Europeanist parties and organisations in the four largest EU member states and transnationally, before presenting a profile of DiEM25 as an ideal-typical critical Europeanist organisation at the pan-European level. The two following sections consider DiEM25’s message and how effectively it is communicating it. We conclude by suggesting a number of reasons for optimism concerning future public receptiveness to the message arguing that it offers social-democrats a new narrative and therefore possible way out of a long-standing electoral decline bound up with the declining hold of their more traditional narratives.



SICI: 1594-6061(2019)3<301:MAMSDA>2.0.ZU;2-6
Testo completo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.3270/95021
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