29. März 2023. Kiran Patel: Putting permissive consensus to rest

Rethinking societal attitudes vis-à-vis European integration
Vortrag im Rahmen der Tagung "Beyond the Progressive Story:
Reframing Resistance to European Integration The support of
European integration among the citizens of the member states has
always been more fragile than most of the literature would suggest.
The phenomenon that is often called Euroscepticism has a longer and
more complicated history than we tend to acknowledge. Its history
cannot be reduced to the post-Maastricht period. The presentation
provides a critical discussion of existing concepts such as the
very term Euroscepticism and the idea of a permissive consensus
characterizing citizens’ attitudes during the formative period of
European integration. The talk will cover the full period of the
Cold War to discuss the complex interrelationship between citizens,
parties and other forms of interest representation on the one hand
and the European institutions on the other. More research of this
kind is needed to gain a better understanding of the long-neglected
societal dimensions of European integration. Prof. Dr. Kiran Klaus
Patel, Historiker; Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Europäische
Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts an der
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Direktor des Projekthaus
Europa Moderation: Philipp Müller, Historiker; Sprecher der
Forschungsgruppe Demokratie und Staatlichkeit; Leiter des
BMBF-Verbundprojekts "Euroskepsis" Eine Kooperation der Max Weber
Stiftung und des Hamburger Instituts für Sozialforschung Gefördert
vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)