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EUDENTIFY - Common institutions, diverging identities?

Supranational institution building, identity formation, and the future of European integration

EUDENTIFY develops an integrated and empirically validated theory of the EU institutions-identity-link. It argues that the institutions-identity link varies across different policy areas and across time. Moreover, institutions and identities influence each other, both positively and negatively. 

To empirically test this theoretical framework, it constructs a new data set covering 50 years of survey data on European identity and uses cutting-edge research methods to analyse 50 years of EU institution building and political identity change as well as its micro-foundations. The project advances knowledge on European integration, political psychology and public opinion, while providing unprecedented possibilities to study European identity over a much longer time frame and using better data than what was previously possible. 

This research project is funded by a VIDI grant of the Dutch Research Council, 2022-2027.

Prof. T. (Theresa) Kuhn

Faculty of Humanities

Europese studies