A multinational study of national identity in Europe: overview of the project and findings

This seven-nation study of national and supranational identity in Europe in the context of the European Union was begun in 1998 in France but conducted primarily in all seven during the spring and summer of 2001. The intent was to investigate the nexus of national and supranational identity construction, utilizing the intensive subjective analysis Q methodology. To achieve optimum cross-cultural comparisons, study instruments were all uniformly constructed across the cultural spectrum but translated for each locale.