National frames revisited. Mixed methods to compare French, Biritish and (French speakiing) Belgian reactions to Europe

This paper is based on a focus groups research conducted in France, (french speaking) Belgium and the UK. It will argue that the national frame structures reactions towards Europe, at once because the historical national trajectories inform the stories, the status and the usages that may be made of Europe, but also because the national institutional organisation that has fashioned the knowledge, and the political practice of citizens, weighs on the manner in which they may comprehend, accept or reject, he European political system. From this point of view, the mechanisms of incorporation, in the Belgian case, that of projection, in the French case, and that of exteriorisation, in the British case, can only be read as the results of such processes. This paper wil used a mixed methods designs insofar as it will analyze focus groups conducted in three different countries with an automatic software of discourse analysis named ALCESTE.