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Mapping pro-EU attitudes in Greece: a value-based empirical study : master's thesis
ID Lykaki, Argyro (Author), ID Novak, Meta (Mentor) More about this mentor... This link opens in a new window

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Greece’s experiences through the financial crisis (2009-14), the migration surge (2015-19) and the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-22) turned the country into a stress-test for European governance. Bridging European-integration research with normative political theory, this thesis reframes “support for the EU” as Greek citizens’ adherence to three civic norms: law-abidingness, participation and solidarity and asks how those shocks reshaped Greek public attitudes toward the EU. Long-series Eurobarometer data are recast into composite indices that track how each norm rose or fell across the three crises and are interpreted alongside key EU and national policy decisions. The trajectories reveal a differentiated but converging erosion of normative EU support. Law-abidingness collapsed during austerity and never recovered, signaling durable institutional distrust. Participation proved highly reactive, yet retreating when citizens deemed their voice ineffective. Solidarity declined slowly but steadily, reflecting cumulative disappointment in burden-sharing. The patterns confirm a bailout-era plunge and mid-migration stabilisation, but refute expectations of a pandemic rebound. By operationalising EU attitudes through citizenship norms, the thesis shows that public trust in integration depends on governance that is simultaneously lawful, participatory and solidaristic.

Language:English
Keywords:Greek pro EU attitudes, citizenship norms, law-abidingness, civic participation, solidarity, Eurobarometer
Work type:Master's thesis/paper
Typology:2.09 - Master's Thesis
Organization:FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
Place of publishing:Ljubljana
Publisher:A. Lykaki
Year:2025
Number of pages:1 spletni vir (1 datoteka PDF (262 str.))
PID:20.500.12556/RUL-171612 This link opens in a new window
UDC:061.1EU:32(495)(043.2)
COBISS.SI-ID:253640451 This link opens in a new window
Publication date in RUL:29.08.2025
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Language:Slovenian
Title:Kartiranje proevropskih stališč v Grčiji: vrednotno utemeljena empirična študija : magistrsko delo
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Tri krize, s katerimi se je soočila Grčija: finančna kriza (2009–2014), porast migracij (2015–2019) in pandemija covida-19 (2020–2022), so Grčijo spremenile v preizkusni primer evropskega upravljanja. S povezovanjem raziskav evropske integracije in normativne politične teorije ta magistrska naloga na novo opredeli »podporo EU« kot zavezanost grških državljanov trem državljanskim normam: spoštovanju prava, participaciji in solidarnosti, ter se vpraša, kako so vse tri krize preoblikovale stališča grške javnosti do EU. Podatki javnomnenjske raziskave Eurobarometer so bili uporabljeni za oblikovanje sestavljenih indeksov: spoštovanje prava, participacije in solidarnosti, s katerimi spremljamo vzpone in padce odnosa do EU skozi tri krize, ter so razloženi skupaj s ključnimi odločitvami EU in nacionalnih vlad. Gibanja sestavljenih indeksov razkrivajo različno, a konvergentno erozijo normativne podpore EU. Spoštovanje prava se je med varčevalnimi ukrepi porušilo in se nikoli ni povrnilo, kar kaže na trajno institucionalno nezaupanje. Participacija se je izkazala za močno reaktivno, a je upadla, ko so državljani presodili, da je njihov glas neučinkovit. Solidarnost je upadala počasi, a vztrajno, kar odraža naraščajoče razočaranje nad delitvijo skupnih bremen. Vzorci potrjujejo padec podpore EU v času sanacijskega obdobja in stabilizacijo sredi migrantske krize, a ovržejo pričakovanja o ponovnem vzponu med pandemijo. Z operacionalizacijo stališč do EU skozi državljanske norme naloga pokaže, da javno zaupanje v integracijo temelji na upravljanju, ki je hkrati zakonito, participativno in solidarno.

Keywords:grška proevropska stališča, državljanske norme, spoštovanje zakonov, državljanska participacija, solidarnost, Eurobarometer

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