The municipal gaze on the EU

European municipalism as ideology

Bibliographic Data

ID7889367
AuthorsElisabetta Mocca (0000-0002-4784-0600, University of Vienna, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume28
Issue2
Pages143-161
Publication date2023-05-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Political Ideologies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1356-9317 • E-ISSN: 1469-9613
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13569317.2021.1947571
OpenAlexW3181413009
LanguageEN
Citations received3

The EC/EU has been an eminently nation-led project. However, running in parallel, the European municipalist movement, braiding relations among cities across Europe, has sought to build an influential political role for municipalities within the European polity. The study of European municipal cooperation has become a consolidated thread of research in European and Urban Studies. Nonetheless, contributions on the topic tend to focus on the pragmatic aspects of municipal collaborations, glossing over the ideological foundations of European Municipalism. Therefore, by challenging the dominant scholarly view, this article contends that European Municipalism may be considered as a 'thin-centred' ideology. To support this argument, the ideological structure of European Municipalism is unbundled by throwing light on its conceptual components. As a result, this article construes European Municipalism as a 'thin-centred' political ideology, which postulates universal city-to-city mutualism and proposes a European counter-project built on a polycentric and diffuse conception of power

Economics · European integration · European union · Ideology · International trade · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Sociology · Law

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