Community, transnationalism, and the Left-Right metaphor
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2397940 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan White (0000-0002-4668-698X, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 197-219 |
| Publication date | 2012-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1368431011423652 |
| OpenAlex | W2118883457 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 36 |
The imagery of Left and Right has been a common way to conceive democratic politics in modern Europe, and commentators have suggested it be extended to the European Union. This article examines the normative implications and plausibility of European politics being cast in these terms. It focuses on the challenges of rendering political division recognizable and acceptable at a transnational level, of evoking its continuities of structure, and of symbolizing the ties of political community. The article probes the Left-Right dichotomy's potential in these regards, together with the conjunctural factors likely to raise or diminish its appeal
Appeal · Democracy · Epistemology · European union · Left and right · Metaphor · Normative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transnationalism · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Religion and Society Interactions
Right and Left
Left and right
The postnational constellation
Parties and Party Systems
Epilogue
The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought
Restructuring Europe
Forging Democracy
Left and Right in Global Politics
Metaphors We Live By
Left–Right Orientations
The Left-Right Schema
An economic theory of democracy
The Functions of Social Conflict
Stories of Peoplehood
The Postnational Constellation
The Enigma of Capital
The democratic ideology of right–left and public reason in relation to Rawls's political liberalism
The European Right
A Sense of the Left
Political representation and government in the European Union
Motion, Container and Equilibrium
Social Theory and Social Structure
The history of the left from Marx to the present
Unpolitical Democracy
Left-Right in Politics
Europe and the Common
Left, Right and the third way
What is beyond right/left? The case of New Labour
Left and Right as political resources
The Sociology of Conflict. I
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,53 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |