A Postfunctionalist Theory of European Integration: From Permissive
                    Consensus to Constraining Dissensus

Hooghe, Liesbet; Marks, Gary

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“…The origins of its rise can be identified in the early 1990s when the increasing contestation of the European project brought an end to the years of "permissive consensus" (Hooghe and Marks, 2009). In more recent years non-mainstream parties (mainly radical left and radical right parties) managed to exploit opposition towards the EU by promoting a Euroskeptic stance and polarizing the EU dimension, at the same time increasing its salience as a political issue (de Vries and Hobolt, 2012;Hobolt and de Vries, 2015;Rovny, 2012).…”

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Social media and political communication in the 2014 elections to the European Parliament

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Social media play an increasingly important part in the communication strategies of political campaigns by reflecting information about the policy preferences and opinions of political actors and their public followers. In addition, the content of the messages provides rich information about the political issues and the framing of those issues during elections, such as whether contested issues concern Europe or rather extend pre-existing national debates. In this study, we survey the European landscape of social media using tweets originating from and referring to political actors during the 2014 European Parliament election campaign. We describe the language and national distribution of the messages, the relative volume of different types of communications, and the factors that determine the adoption and use of social media by the candidates. We also analyze the dynamics of the volume and content of the communications over the duration of the campaign with reference to both the EU integration dimension of the debate and the prominence of the most visible list-leading candidates. Our findings indicate that the lead candidates and their televised debate had a prominent influence on the volume and content of communications, and that the content and emotional tone of communications more reflects preferences along the EU dimension of political contestation rather than classic national issues relating to left-right differences. In this paper we map the usage of social media in the 2014 European Parliament (EP) election focusing on Twitter, including an analysis of the networks of followers, the usage of national and cross-national hashtags related to the EU, and the types of Twitter communication. We focus on Twitter because it is the most widely adopted platform by politicians for the purposes of personal promotion, diffusing policy positions, mobilization and because it enables a more direct and interactive engagement with the public. Applying sentiment analysis to the text of the Tweets, we also assess various levels of sentiment associated with particular concepts or individuals or countries. Finally, by looking at the associations of message content with external policy measures of candidate parties, we are able to map content and associations within the text to get a picture of the dialogue across the Euro-

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“…90 Without a more convincing legitimation story, the stability of European integration remains endangered. The point is not that the aforementioned philosophers do not propose desirable political institutions and policies.…”

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The EU’s democratic deficit in a realist key: multilateral governance, popular sovereignty and critical responsiveness

Beetz

Rossi

2017

Transnational Legal Theory

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This paper provides a realist analysis of the EU's legitimacy. We propose a modification of Bernard Williams' theory of legitimacy, which we term critical responsiveness. For Williams, 'Basic Legitimation Demand + Modernity = Liberalism'. Drawing on that model, we make three claims. (i) The right side of the equation is insufficiently sensitive to popular sovereignty; (ii) The left side of the equation is best thought of as a 'legitimation story': a non-moralised normative account of how to shore up belief in legitimacy while steering clear of both raw domination and ideological distortions. (iii) The EU's current legitimation story draws on a tradition of popular sovereignty that sits badly with the supranational delegation and pooling of sovereign powers. We conclude by suggesting that the EU's legitimation deficit may be best addressed demoicratically, by recovering the value of popular sovereignty at the expense of a degree of state sovereignty.

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“…In recent decades, the politicized issue of identity has begun to overshadow problem-solving as a key motive in discussions on European integration (Hooghe and Marks, 2009). The greater public is also no longer indifferent to what (supranational) elites have decided.…”

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The rise of a European healthcare union

Vollaard

Martinsen

2017

Comp Eur Polit

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A Postfunctionalist Theory of European Integration: From Permissive Consensus to Constraining Dissensus

Cited by 2,005 publications

References 8 publications

Social media and political communication in the 2014 elections to the European Parliament

Social media and political communication in the 2014 elections to the European Parliament

The EU’s democratic deficit in a realist key: multilateral governance, popular sovereignty and critical responsiveness

The rise of a European healthcare union

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