Ola Listhaug and Matti Wiberg
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198294733
- eISBN:
- 9780191599699
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198294735.003.0010
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
Examines patterns in public confidence in the major institutions of Western Europe during the decade of the 1980s. It first addresses some conceptual and theoretical issues about the measurement of ...
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Examines patterns in public confidence in the major institutions of Western Europe during the decade of the 1980s. It first addresses some conceptual and theoretical issues about the measurement of confidence in institutions, and reviews the European Values Surveys used as data sources. It then presents evidence for the period 1981–90, and explores the factors that can account for the observed variations in the levels of confidence in various institutions, notably in respect of government and major companies. The finding that not all confidence levels move in tandem should direct attention to the possibility that inter‐institutional linkages might be important for determining overall confidence in the political order.Less
Examines patterns in public confidence in the major institutions of Western Europe during the decade of the 1980s. It first addresses some conceptual and theoretical issues about the measurement of confidence in institutions, and reviews the European Values Surveys used as data sources. It then presents evidence for the period 1981–90, and explores the factors that can account for the observed variations in the levels of confidence in various institutions, notably in respect of government and major companies. The finding that not all confidence levels move in tandem should direct attention to the possibility that inter‐institutional linkages might be important for determining overall confidence in the political order.
Esra Özyürek
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691162782
- eISBN:
- 9781400852710
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691162782.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
Every year more and more Europeans, including Germans, are embracing Islam. It is estimated that there are now up to 100,000 German converts—a number similar to that in France and the United Kingdom. ...
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Every year more and more Europeans, including Germans, are embracing Islam. It is estimated that there are now up to 100,000 German converts—a number similar to that in France and the United Kingdom. What stands out about recent conversions is that they take place at a time when Islam is increasingly seen as contrary to European values. This book explores how Germans come to Islam within this antagonistic climate, how they manage to balance their love for Islam with their society's fear of it, how they relate to immigrant Muslims, and how they shape debates about race, religion, and belonging in today's Europe. The book looks at how mainstream society marginalizes converts and questions their national loyalties. In turn, converts try to disassociate themselves from migrants of Muslim-majority countries and promote a denationalized Islam untainted by Turkish or Arab traditions. Some German Muslims believe that once cleansed of these accretions, the Islam that surfaces fits in well with German values and lifestyle. Others even argue that being a German Muslim is wholly compatible with the older values of the German Enlightenment. This book provides a fresh window into the connections and tensions stemming from a growing religious phenomenon in Germany and beyond.Less
Every year more and more Europeans, including Germans, are embracing Islam. It is estimated that there are now up to 100,000 German converts—a number similar to that in France and the United Kingdom. What stands out about recent conversions is that they take place at a time when Islam is increasingly seen as contrary to European values. This book explores how Germans come to Islam within this antagonistic climate, how they manage to balance their love for Islam with their society's fear of it, how they relate to immigrant Muslims, and how they shape debates about race, religion, and belonging in today's Europe. The book looks at how mainstream society marginalizes converts and questions their national loyalties. In turn, converts try to disassociate themselves from migrants of Muslim-majority countries and promote a denationalized Islam untainted by Turkish or Arab traditions. Some German Muslims believe that once cleansed of these accretions, the Islam that surfaces fits in well with German values and lifestyle. Others even argue that being a German Muslim is wholly compatible with the older values of the German Enlightenment. This book provides a fresh window into the connections and tensions stemming from a growing religious phenomenon in Germany and beyond.
Hans Joas and Klaus Wiegandt (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846311383
- eISBN:
- 9781846315800
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846315800
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
What is the cultural identity of Europe? Are there specifically European values? Questions such as these are at the centre of a considerable number of political and scholarly debates in contemporary ...
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What is the cultural identity of Europe? Are there specifically European values? Questions such as these are at the centre of a considerable number of political and scholarly debates in contemporary Europe. This book examines innovations and value traditions of Europe to produce an image of contemporary European self-understanding. It combines two possible approaches, examining both specific cultural traditions (‘Athens’ and ‘Jerusalem’) and specific values (‘freedom’ and ‘rationality’).Less
What is the cultural identity of Europe? Are there specifically European values? Questions such as these are at the centre of a considerable number of political and scholarly debates in contemporary Europe. This book examines innovations and value traditions of Europe to produce an image of contemporary European self-understanding. It combines two possible approaches, examining both specific cultural traditions (‘Athens’ and ‘Jerusalem’) and specific values (‘freedom’ and ‘rationality’).
Hans Joas
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846311383
- eISBN:
- 9781846315800
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846311383.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This introductory chapter explores the definition of European values and Europe's cultural tradition. It also summarises the axial age character of the traditions that shaped Europe and lists some ...
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This introductory chapter explores the definition of European values and Europe's cultural tradition. It also summarises the axial age character of the traditions that shaped Europe and lists some questions that must be addressed in establishing a substantive characterization of Europe' cultural values.Less
This introductory chapter explores the definition of European values and Europe's cultural tradition. It also summarises the axial age character of the traditions that shaped Europe and lists some questions that must be addressed in establishing a substantive characterization of Europe' cultural values.
Sebastien Peyrouse
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479844333
- eISBN:
- 9781479809448
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479844333.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
This chapter explores Europe's role in Central Asia. Since 2007, the EU has resolved to become more assertive toward Central Asia, spurred by the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, tensions over ...
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This chapter explores Europe's role in Central Asia. Since 2007, the EU has resolved to become more assertive toward Central Asia, spurred by the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, tensions over energy matters with Russia, China's increasing power, and the influence of some regional organizations like the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Indeed, the EU is now one of the main trading partners of the five Central Asian states. However, several issues continue to shape European policy in Central Asia, and the EU must reconcile sometimes contradictory interests: the promotion of European values, economic strategies, and security objectives linked in large part to the proximity of Afghanistan.Less
This chapter explores Europe's role in Central Asia. Since 2007, the EU has resolved to become more assertive toward Central Asia, spurred by the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, tensions over energy matters with Russia, China's increasing power, and the influence of some regional organizations like the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Indeed, the EU is now one of the main trading partners of the five Central Asian states. However, several issues continue to shape European policy in Central Asia, and the EU must reconcile sometimes contradictory interests: the promotion of European values, economic strategies, and security objectives linked in large part to the proximity of Afghanistan.
Stephen Weatherill
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199557264
- eISBN:
- 9780191828768
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199557264.003.0008
- Subject:
- Law, EU Law
This chapter traces the history of aligning the European Union’s (EU) values with those that animate and legitimate States in Europe. The Court of Justice describes the system as based on the ...
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This chapter traces the history of aligning the European Union’s (EU) values with those that animate and legitimate States in Europe. The Court of Justice describes the system as based on the fundamental premise that each Member State shares with all the other Member States, and recognizes that they share with it, a set of common values on which the EU is founded. This premise implies the existence of mutual trust between the Member States and EU law that implements respect for such values. The chapter concludes by arguing that the EU needs to be sustained through its model of constitutional tolerance and as a site of demoi-cracy, and not through a shift to the super-State that would risk the majoritarian excess and disrespect for local preference that taints many aspects of Europe’s past.Less
This chapter traces the history of aligning the European Union’s (EU) values with those that animate and legitimate States in Europe. The Court of Justice describes the system as based on the fundamental premise that each Member State shares with all the other Member States, and recognizes that they share with it, a set of common values on which the EU is founded. This premise implies the existence of mutual trust between the Member States and EU law that implements respect for such values. The chapter concludes by arguing that the EU needs to be sustained through its model of constitutional tolerance and as a site of demoi-cracy, and not through a shift to the super-State that would risk the majoritarian excess and disrespect for local preference that taints many aspects of Europe’s past.
Marlene Laruelle
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781474410427
- eISBN:
- 9781474418751
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474410427.003.0011
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter explores a major ambiguity in Russia’s state discourse about national identity since Putin’s return to power: that of being increasingly anti-Western while at the same time insisting on ...
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This chapter explores a major ambiguity in Russia’s state discourse about national identity since Putin’s return to power: that of being increasingly anti-Western while at the same time insisting on Russia’s European identity. The Kremlin developed an elaborate narrative dissociating the West’s liberal values from ‘Europe’ as a philosophical and historical principle, and presenting Russia as the representative of authentic European values, the embodiment of those ‘real’ values that have been lost in the West. This narrative reinforces the traditional idea of seeing Europe–in the sense of a civilization–as Russia’s main other. With the Kremlin’s morality-turn, Moscow was able to develop close connections with conservative groupings in the West. At the same time, the chapter argues that the Kremlin has to offer a consensus-based vision of Russia’s role and destiny, a set of precepts fluid enough to allow flux and reinterpretations, depending on the circumstances, domestically and internationally.Less
This chapter explores a major ambiguity in Russia’s state discourse about national identity since Putin’s return to power: that of being increasingly anti-Western while at the same time insisting on Russia’s European identity. The Kremlin developed an elaborate narrative dissociating the West’s liberal values from ‘Europe’ as a philosophical and historical principle, and presenting Russia as the representative of authentic European values, the embodiment of those ‘real’ values that have been lost in the West. This narrative reinforces the traditional idea of seeing Europe–in the sense of a civilization–as Russia’s main other. With the Kremlin’s morality-turn, Moscow was able to develop close connections with conservative groupings in the West. At the same time, the chapter argues that the Kremlin has to offer a consensus-based vision of Russia’s role and destiny, a set of precepts fluid enough to allow flux and reinterpretations, depending on the circumstances, domestically and internationally.
David Seed
Susan Castillo (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846311802
- eISBN:
- 9781846315084
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846315084
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
In this collection, leading scholars in the field examine the interfaces between narratives of travel and of empire. The term ‘American’, used here in the hemispheric sense, and ‘American travel ...
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In this collection, leading scholars in the field examine the interfaces between narratives of travel and of empire. The term ‘American’, used here in the hemispheric sense, and ‘American travel writing’ include both writing about America by visitors and writings by Americans abroad. The contributors are recognized specialists in different periods of American literature and travel writing. The chapters explore the ways in which descriptions of the landscapes and peoples of colonized territories shaped perceptions of these areas; the transmission of images and metaphors between colony and metropole; the othering of non-scribal cultures as ‘primitive’ or ‘wild’; the deployment of representations of encounters between European and other cultures in order to critique or reinforce European or American values and cultural practices; and the tacit assumptions of cultural or economic hegemony underlying U.S. or European travel writing.Less
In this collection, leading scholars in the field examine the interfaces between narratives of travel and of empire. The term ‘American’, used here in the hemispheric sense, and ‘American travel writing’ include both writing about America by visitors and writings by Americans abroad. The contributors are recognized specialists in different periods of American literature and travel writing. The chapters explore the ways in which descriptions of the landscapes and peoples of colonized territories shaped perceptions of these areas; the transmission of images and metaphors between colony and metropole; the othering of non-scribal cultures as ‘primitive’ or ‘wild’; the deployment of representations of encounters between European and other cultures in order to critique or reinforce European or American values and cultural practices; and the tacit assumptions of cultural or economic hegemony underlying U.S. or European travel writing.
Sally McKee
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780300221367
- eISBN:
- 9780300224696
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300221367.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter explains how the contradictory forces of invisibility and conspicuousness that worked incessantly upon dark-skinned black men and women living in societies dominated by European cultural ...
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This chapter explains how the contradictory forces of invisibility and conspicuousness that worked incessantly upon dark-skinned black men and women living in societies dominated by European cultural values shaped Edmond Dede's interactions with the people he encountered. They defined people's expectations of him and provoked him to adopt strategies to evade those forces. He may not have prospered to the extent or in the way that he would have preferred to, but in the end the people who used him as an index of their hopes were right to do so. Conspicuousness was a permanent quality of his life in an overwhelmingly white society. Likewise, because his skin color consistently drew the attention of white, black, and mixed-race observers away from his work, the creative self would be always behind the mask.Less
This chapter explains how the contradictory forces of invisibility and conspicuousness that worked incessantly upon dark-skinned black men and women living in societies dominated by European cultural values shaped Edmond Dede's interactions with the people he encountered. They defined people's expectations of him and provoked him to adopt strategies to evade those forces. He may not have prospered to the extent or in the way that he would have preferred to, but in the end the people who used him as an index of their hopes were right to do so. Conspicuousness was a permanent quality of his life in an overwhelmingly white society. Likewise, because his skin color consistently drew the attention of white, black, and mixed-race observers away from his work, the creative self would be always behind the mask.
