Progress, democracy, efficiency: normative narratives in political science EU studies

摘要: ABSTRACTThis article identifies influential political narratives in the 73 currently most highly cited science articles on EU. It is based systematic analysis of expressions normativity, which signal that European integration, or its institutions policies, are bad, good, flourishing declining. A normative narrative continuous progress connected with a 1990s grand theoretical debate EU studies, accounts for much positive tone studies until about 1998. Narratives EU's democratic deficit and impact beyond borders help explain subsequent negative turn normativity.