A Primordial Attachment to the Nation? French and Irish Workers and Trade Unions in Past EU Referendum Debates
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Title: | A Primordial Attachment to the Nation? French and Irish Workers and Trade Unions in Past EU Referendum Debates | Authors: | Béthoux, Élodie; Erne, Roland; Golden, Darragh | Permanent link: | http://hdl.handle.net/10197/9270 | Date: | 5-Mar-2018 | Online since: | 2018-03-05T12:17:08Z | Abstract: | We aim to contribute to a better understanding of the dynamics that are driving EU politicisation and the rising Euroscepticism of workers and unions in the public sphere. One explanation frames the rise in Euroscepticism in cultural terms, emphasising workers' alleged primordial attachment to their nation. A second uses socio-economic frames, linking growing Euroscepticism to the increasingly neo-liberal direction of the EU. The weight of these competing frames in the referendum campaigns on the EU Constitution in France and the Lisbon Treaty and the Fiscal Treaty in Ireland cannot be measured easily, as the categorisation of a phrase as socio-economic or cultural is in itself subject to political classification struggles. We therefore presents the findings of an inductive lexical analysis of all Irish Times, all Le Monde and all worker- or union-related articles published in almost all national media outlets during the mentioned referendum debates. This was made possible by the Alceste software package that allowed us to analyse very large corpuses of articles inductively. Our analysis reveals that socio-economic terms dominated policy debates in both countries. The findings question existing EU politicisation studies that were measuring the salience of different frame types by deductive analysis. | Funding Details: | European Commission European Commission Horizon 2020 Irish Research Council |
Funding Details: | French Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Type of material: | Journal Article | Publisher: | Wiley | Journal: | British Journal of Industrial Relations | Volume: | 56 | Issue: | 3 | Start page: | 656 | End page: | 678 | Copyright (published version): | 2018 the Authors | Keywords: | European integration; Politicization; Euro-skeptic; Referendum; Trade union; Cultural shift; Working class; Alceste | DOI: | 10.1111/bjir.12303 | Language: | en | Status of Item: | Peer reviewed | This item is made available under a Creative Commons License: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/ |
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