THE EUROPEAN UNION: STABILITY DESPITE CHALLENGES

The European Union: Stability Despite Challenges

The European Union has remained stable despite all its past and current challenges.This essay explores the reasons for that.We argue that the secret behind its stability lies in its system of negotiation.Against this backdrop, we analyse two recent challenges of the European Union.First, we show how domestically bound European governments were able

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Trust as a mechanism of system justification.

People are motivated to hold favorable attitudes about the systems on which they depend, so they justify (i.e., rationalize, defend and bolster) forms of social and economic inequality, even if the inequality is disadvantageous to them.This paper examines how this system-justifying motivation is reflected in behaviors involving interpersonal trust.

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