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In this chapter, I outline how the conceptual inventions, controversies and changes related to the building of an EU polity can be fruitfully tackled by the heuristic tools that are based on the conceptual historical approach discussed in the previous chapter. The focus is set on concepts in two respects. Political concepts serve as analytical and theoretical categories, but, they are themselves controversial and an object of politics. So, second, political concepts are always related to changes in the real world: they are objects and indicators of social, institutional and political changes, conflicts or debates. With European integration, these two dimensions often cross-cut or are deliberately mixed. The chapter presents a research agenda that is based on these considerations.
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Wiesner, C. (2019). Studying Conceptual Change via European Integration: A Research Agenda. In: Inventing the EU as a Democratic Polity. Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94415-9_4
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