Development and Semi-Periphery Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Introduction: Renato Boschi and Carlos Henrique Santana
- Part I Development, Macroeconomic Policies and Varieties of Capitalism
- Part II Political Culture, Identity Politics and Political Contention
- Part III Ideas and the Role of Elites and Advocacy Networks: Translating and Legitimating the Frontiers of Institutional Reforms
- Chapter 8 Marketing Professional Expertise by (Re)Inventing States: Professional Rivalries between Lawyers and Economists as Hegemonic Strategies in the International Market for the Reproduction of National State Elites
- Chapter 9 Identity, Policy Preferences and the Perception of the European Integration Process among the Hungarian Elites
- Chapter 10 Critical Junctures, Institutional Legacies and Epistemic Communities: A Development Agenda in Brazil
- Part IV Economic Reforms, Public Policies and Development
Chapter 9 - Identity, Policy Preferences and the Perception of the European Integration Process among the Hungarian Elites
from Part III - Ideas and the Role of Elites and Advocacy Networks: Translating and Legitimating the Frontiers of Institutional Reforms
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Introduction: Renato Boschi and Carlos Henrique Santana
- Part I Development, Macroeconomic Policies and Varieties of Capitalism
- Part II Political Culture, Identity Politics and Political Contention
- Part III Ideas and the Role of Elites and Advocacy Networks: Translating and Legitimating the Frontiers of Institutional Reforms
- Chapter 8 Marketing Professional Expertise by (Re)Inventing States: Professional Rivalries between Lawyers and Economists as Hegemonic Strategies in the International Market for the Reproduction of National State Elites
- Chapter 9 Identity, Policy Preferences and the Perception of the European Integration Process among the Hungarian Elites
- Chapter 10 Critical Junctures, Institutional Legacies and Epistemic Communities: A Development Agenda in Brazil
- Part IV Economic Reforms, Public Policies and Development
Summary
Introduction
In this chapter we will be exploring how symbolic and pragmatic aspects of the perception of the European integration process are related in the opinion of Hungarian elites. We are interested in the intensity of Hungarian elites' supranational attachment as a symbolic form of identification. We will explore how the EU level of redistribution is perceived as a pragmatic measure of identification with the European Union. We will also describe how elites perceive the delegation of certain policy areas to the EU level and whether Hungary's EU membership is perceived as advantageous or not. Taking into account some of the theoretical approaches of the field, we will verify how identity, the positive perception of EU membership and policy preferences are interconnected.
Our analysis is based on the 2007 wave of the IntUne elite survey in Hungary where 80 members of parliament and 42 top business leaders were interviewed.
Theoretical Background
Several models for explaining support for the European integration process have been elaborated since the 1970s. Studies in this field often conceive the EU as an economic entity – according to this utilitarist logic the support for the EU is based on a rational cost-benefit calculation. Benefits of the EU and the ability to profit from these benefits can either appear at the individual or at the country level (Gabel 1998).
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- Development and Semi-PeripheryPost-Neoliberal Trajectories in South America and Central Eastern Europe, pp. 181 - 200Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2012