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Drawing upon systematic research using Q Methodology in seven countries - Denmark, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Netherlands and Sweden - this volume presents the results of the most extensive effort yet at cross-cultural, subjective assessment of national and supranational identity. The studies attempt to explain how the European Union, as the most visible experiment in mass national identity change in the contemporary world, influences how Europeans think about their political affiliations.

"This chapter reports on the on-going work of a team of researchers conducting studies on (supra)national identity in eight European nations: Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, and Sweden. Using Q methodology as their uniform approach, the researchers illuminate cross-cultural variables that are at work in the construction of the European Union, The chapter presents a brief description of the entire project, including a description of Q methodology, as a prelude to a more detailed discussion of how one part of the overall project was conducted in France. Finally, a concluding section addresses implications that these studies could have for the field of political psychology." (author's abstract)