Beyond Integration Theory: The (Anti‐)Constitutional Dimension of European Crisis Governance

Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian

doi:10.1111/jcms.12379

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“…In fact, it is more likely that, along with the rise of populist and eurosceptic forces on both the left and the right of the political spectrum, the conflict with the European institutions will be employed domestically as a source of consensus. While more research is needed to analyse how populist forces deal with public finance in terms of discourse and policies, it is worth stressing that the dimension of promise (of future prosperity and balanced growth) that accompanied Italy's long‐term risanamento/ sacrifices has broken into the reality of a decade of crisis and social inequalities, further exposing the increasing anti‐constitutional and coercive dimension of European crisis governance (Kreuder‐Sonnen, , pp. 8–10).…”

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The Discursive Construction of Europe in Italy in the Age of Permanent Austerity

Cozzolino

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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Combining a Critical International Political Economy theoretical perspective with Critical Discourse Analysis, the article explores, from the late 1980s to present and across the party-system, the characteristics of the discursive construction of Europe in Italy as a source of legitimation and naturalization of the country's permanent fiscal adjustment and economic restructuring. Through an original analysis of the official policy documents enacted by Italian governments, I show that the resort to Europe and 'risanamento' (permanent fiscal adjustment) are discursively constructed, by domestic political forces, as legitimating strategies to tackle fiscal profligacy and restore growth, notwithstanding the fact that in Italy (1) primary state budget has been in surplus from the early 1990s, (2) economic growth has been mediocre since the 1990s, and (3) social inequalities and macroeconomic imbalances have risen sharply, especially after 2008 crisis due to prolonged austerity measures. Furthermore, in contrast to the literature that sees Italian Europeanization as a pathway of virtuous economic and political change favoured by supranational integration, I argue that the discursive strategies developed by Italian political elites to legitimate change in national political economy should be broadly conceived, and analysed, as organic to neoliberalism and austerity as international hegemonic projects.

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The Discursive Construction of Europe in Italy in the Age of Permanent Austerity

Cozzolino

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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“…63 I submit that one may grasp technocracy as a specific regime in the Lefortian sense. 63 I submit that one may grasp technocracy as a specific regime in the Lefortian sense.…”

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The empty place of European power: Contested democracy and the technocratic threat

Corrias¹

2017

European Law Journal

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In this article, I analyse the European Union (EU) in the light of the Lefortian question: What place does power have in a democracy? Claude Lefort has argued that modern democracy is a regime where the place of power is empty. In this article, I investigate what this entails for the EU. I take the current situation of democracy in the EU as being marked by two developments: the contestation of democracy by citizens on the one hand and the hollowing out of democracy at the EU level on the other. Exemplary for the first development are the popular protest movements known as the indignados. The second feature is exemplified by governance and technocracy. My argument suggests that the critical response of the former to the latter can in fact be read as the claim that what should have been the empty place of power in European democracy has come to be occupied by the establishment of an authoritarian regime of expert rule.

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“…There is clearly recognition that the crisis through which the organization is passing is the result of multiple factors and impacts the EU in various ways and spheres (Featherstone, 2016;Kreuder-Sonnen, 2016). Equally, the crisis has been interpreted from a variety of theoretical perspectives (Niemann and Ioannou, 2015;Schimmelfennig, 2015;Verdun, 2015).…”

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The Crisis of the European Union as a Complex Adaptive System

Lehmann

2018

J of Common Market Studies

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The present article argues that the current crisis of the European Union (EU) is much deeper and more profound than many EU officials and analysts care to admit. Taking the so‐called sovereign debt crisis and the refugee crisis as illustrative case studies it is argued that the crisis needs to be reframed as a Complex Adaptive System which is self‐organizing in a deeply incoherent manner and which current EU policies are not only not addressing but exacerbating. As an alternative, the article suggests using Adaptive Action as a framework to identify the conditions which sustain the current dysfunctionality of the European Union and makes concrete suggestions on how these conditions can be altered. Areas of further research are also identified.

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Beyond Integration Theory: The (Anti‐)Constitutional Dimension of European Crisis Governance

Cited by 56 publications

References 73 publications

The Discursive Construction of Europe in Italy in the Age of Permanent Austerity

The Discursive Construction of Europe in Italy in the Age of Permanent Austerity

The empty place of European power: Contested democracy and the technocratic threat

The Crisis of the European Union as a Complex Adaptive System

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