Titlebook: Hegemonies of Legitimation; Discourse Dynamics i Dominika Biegoń Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 EU legitima

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Introduction: Legitimacy as a Discursive Battleground in the European Commission,ly fallen and Euro-scepticism is on the rise throughout the EU (Fuchs, Roger and Magni-Berton 2009; de Wilde, Michailidou and Trenz 2013). This has not left EU institutions unaffected: political elites in general, and within the Commission in particular, are worried about the legitimacy basis of the

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Reconstructing Meanings of a Legitimate EC/EU: Discursive Metaphor Analysis,ins the primary importance of language for the social sciences. With its focus on the production of meaning and because of the constitutive role it attributes to language, poststructuralist discourse theory is clearly part of the linguistic turn in social sciences (Torfing 2005a: 153).

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Change and Continuity of Legitimacy Discourses in the European Commission between 1973 and 2013,will show that legitimacy means different things to the Commission in different periods of time. At times, legitimacy is presented as being merely an issue of performance while at others democracy and legitimacy become closely intertwined. There were also phases in the history of the Commission in w

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The Failed Hegemonic Project: The Identity Discourse in the 1980s,h the social structures of a European community, and the existence of a collectively shared European identity. was constructed as being crucial for legitimate governance. Despite its initial success, however, the identity discourse did not fully manage to hegemonize the field of meanings attached to

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Democracy as a Successful Hegemonic Project in the 1990s,ns of a legitimate EC while other concepts of legitimacy were almost completely marginalized (see Figure 4.2). When the Commission talked about legitimacy, it was invariably referring to democracy. In other words, the democracy discourse had assumed a hegemonic position. How had this drastic discurs

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,Conclusion: Towards an Alternative Horizon — Democracy and Dispute,ate the familiar (Diez 2014a: 322, see also 2014b, 2008). The conclusion of a book is the ideal place to get back to this core task. So far, the primary goal of this study has been to describe the discursive structures of different legitimacy discourses prevalent in the Commission (Chapter 4) as wel