Introduction: the differentiated politicisation of European governance

Wilde, Pieter de; Leupold, Anna; Schmidtke, Henning

doi:10.1080/01402382.2015.1081505

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“…The level of politicisation is conceptualised in accordance with the introduction to this special issue, defining it as the process of mobilising mass public opinion under the conditions of the high salience of EU issues, polarisation of opinions and a expansion of actors and audiences discussing EU affairs in the public sphere (De Wilde et al 2016;De Wilde and Zürn 2012;Hutter and Grande 2014). Analogous to the concept of institutional misfit in Europeanisation literature (Börzel and Risse 2000), the substance dimension connects the salience of policy fields related to the EMU with the level of fit between a country's macroeconomic institutions and the EMU's institutional framework in order to understand the interest-based foundations of politicisation patterns.…”

Section: Studying Country-specific Politicisation Patternsmentioning

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A structural approach to politicisation in the Euro crisis

Leupold¹

2015

West European Politics

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Domestic opportunity structures and political actors' positions are widely regarded as the most important explanatory factors for EU politicisation. The euro crisis, however, has revealed cleavages across rather than within countries, suggesting structural factors as a potential explanation for politicisation. Based on the political economy literature on Europe's Economic and Monetary Union, this contribution develops a structural approach to politicisation with respect to countries' power and variety of capitalism. Using a content and claims analysis of business papers in Germany, France, Austria and Ireland before and during the crisis, the findings reveal a differentiated pattern of politicisation. While an expansion of actors indicates that EMU became more politicised during the crisis, polarisation remained low within countries. Countries' variety of capitalism and their perceived power in the EU largely explain the substance and objects of politicisation. The findings encourage further research considering structural explanations for differentiated politicisation in less elite-centred settings of politicisation.

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A structural approach to politicisation in the Euro crisis

Leupold¹

2015

West European Politics

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“…By doing so, transnational grassroots mobilization has become an important type of capital within the field where civil society actors participate, and it is becoming increasingly important to frame issues coherently both in the policy and the political debate. The process by which the policy debate is linked to the political debate is the process of politicization (Hooghe and Marks, ), defined as a phenomenon that ‘can be empirically observed in (a) the growing salience of European governance, involving (b) a polarization of opinion, and (c) an expansion of actors and audiences engaged in monitoring EU affairs’ (De Wilde et al ., , p. 2). The process of politicization of EU issues is important for the present article, because it has implications for the EU civil society field.…”

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Democracy at Stake: Multipositional Actors and Politicization in the EU Civil Society Field

Oleart

García

2017

J of Common Market Studies

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The European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) has the potential to significantly change the dynamics of interaction between EU institutions and civil society, which we conceive as a field. This article analyzes how the EU civil society field has been re‐shaped by the ECI, the creation of networks and relationships between EU and national organizations and the effects of politicization. Using interview data and online documents from five ECI cases, we argue that an ECI can potentially transform the meta‐field of civil society and democracy by altering what is at stake. We show that the five cases compete in a single field of civil society in the EU where incumbent organizations react to challenges. However, the field cannot be characterized in terms of a competition between insiders and outsiders. Rather, the ECI favours actors able to combine activism in different spheres – which we call multi‐positional actors.

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“…Pace De Wilde et al (2016), the ‘salience of EU issues’ – for example in national media debates – is not necessarily a good indicator for European politicisation processes. If one follows Hay’s conceptualisation of the political as a realm of public choice, ‘not every mention of the EU should count as politicization’ (Zürn, 2016: 167).…”

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Labour politics and the EU’s new economic governance regime (European Unions)

Erne¹

2018

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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Introduction: the differentiated politicisation of European governance

Cited by 305 publications

References 81 publications

A structural approach to politicisation in the Euro crisis

A structural approach to politicisation in the Euro crisis

Democracy at Stake: Multipositional Actors and Politicization in the EU Civil Society Field

Labour politics and the EU’s new economic governance regime (European Unions)

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