1st Edition

Value Politics in the European Union From Market to Culture and Back

Edited By François Foret, Jana Vargovčíková Copyright 2021
194 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

194 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

194 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores what drives value politics and the way in which it redraws political conflict at EU level. Based on case studies and analyses of statistical data, the book shows what the uses and roles of values have been at EU level over the past decades in both market-related policies and in identity, cultural and morality policies. It challenges the common assumption that the latter is... Read more

Value conflicts and the EU in crisis: An Introduction

François Foret and Jana Vargovčíková

PART 1: "Business as usual"? From the market to society and culture

1. When Political Competition Boosts Attitude Consistency. The Effect of Party Polarisation on the Linkage Between Economic Values and Cultural Values in Europe

Frédéric Gonthier and Tristan Guerra

2. Values, The Politics of their Mobilization and Ideological Identification: Examples from the Agri-food Industry in the EU

Andy Smith

3. Market, culture, and open-access. European copyright and the renewal of a historical clash of values in the digital age

Céleste Bonnamy

4. The discursive legitimisation of market-oriented EU trade policy through "European values" in a post-permissive consensus era: from 2006 Global Europe to 2015 Trade for All

Alvaro Oleart

PART 2: "New frontiers": From the society and culture to the market

5. Morality issues: A new battlefield for European value politics? The cases of prostitution and surrogacy

François Foret, Fabio Bolzonar and Lucrecia Rubio Grundell

6. Solving Europe’s value deficit via economic well-being? The complex relationship between morality issues and economic well-being

Eva-Maria Euchner and Barnabás Fábián Bakay

7. European Identity between Culture and Values. From European Heritage to "our European Way of Life"

Oriane Calligaro

8. Ethics as a Tool of Value Denial in the EU's Governance of Scientific and Technological Innovation

Annabelle Littoz-Monnet

Conclusions

François Foret

Biography

François Foret is Professor of political science and researcher at the Cevipol and at the Institute for European Studies, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

Jana Vargovčíková is Associate Professor in Political Science at the Inalco (Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales) in Paris, affiliated to the CREE research centre (Centre Europes-Eurasie), France.