This paper analyzes shaming attempts in the European Parliament (EP) over a long period. Drawing on existing literature on shaming and stigmatization in International Relations, as well as on studies on blame avoidance (Public administration), this paper explores the extent to which (and how) shaming attempts were used in day-to-day European policymaking. The paper first shows how the word ‘shame’ has been employed by key policymakers in different policy areas. Data analyzed include EP speech acts (mainly debates) from 1994 to 2014. The second part of the paper consists of an interpretative and contextualizing qualitative analysis, exploring in-depth social and economic policy areas. This paper shows that, in these policy areas, shaming attempts have often served as an ideological tool, or have become entangled in turf wars between supranational institutions and Member States. The in-depth study also illustrates the circumstances under which shaming attempts have led to compliance, non-compliance or shame backlashes.

本文分析了欧洲议会 (EP) 长期以来的羞辱企图。借鉴国际关系中关于羞辱和污名化的现有文献，以及关于避免指责（公共行政）的研究，本文探讨了在日常欧洲决策中使用羞辱尝试的程度（以及如何）。该论文首先展示了不同政策领域的主要决策者如何使用“耻辱”一词。分析的数据包括 1994 年至 2014 年的 EP 言论行为（主要是辩论）。本文的第二部分包括解释性和语境化定性分析，深入探索社会和经济政策领域。本文表明，在这些政策领域，羞辱尝试往往充当一种意识形态工具，或卷入超国家机构与成员国之间的地盘争夺战。深入研究还说明了羞辱尝试导致合规、不合规或羞辱反弹的情况。