Euroscepticism as Everyday Politics in Britain: A Qualitative Secondary Analysis (1995-2016)
(2020)
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- In order to overcome the identity versus utility debate in the literature on individual-level Euroscepticism, Catherine De Vries (2018) developed a theory of “benchmarking” in which individual-level Euroscepticism is relational. Complementing the literature on Euroscepticism as attitudinal, scholarship has developed on collective Euroscepticism. However, there is a gap in this collective Euroscepticism literature concerning how to bridge the utility versus identity dichotomy. To address this gap, our article provides a longitudinal in-depth secondary analysis of qualitative data collected between 1995 and 2016 using the abductive approach to qualitative analysis. We found that a hybrid of nationalist ideology (identity) and neoliberal ideology (utility) emerged as a form of collective British Euroscepticism from the mid-1990s until just after Brexit in which British citizens benchmarked the EU against the UK. We theorize that this is an example of the “EU differential” in collective benchmarking.
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Vila-Henninger, L. A., Caprioli, M. U., Van Ingelgom, V., & et al. (2020). Euroscepticism as Everyday Politics in Britain: A Qualitative Secondary Analysis (1995-2016). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/22693