More integration, less federation: the European integration of core state powers

Genschel, Philipp; Jachtenfuchs, Markus

doi:10.1080/13501763.2015.1055782

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“…boundaries of solidarity. Firstly, social policy and the welfare institutions have been part of the core business of modern states (Genschel and Jachtenfuchs, 2016). The establishment of a EURS scheme moves decision-making power away from member states and towards a joint institution, thereby decreasing national sovereignty.…”

Section: Collective Identities and Support For European Social Pomentioning

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Collective Identities, European Solidarity: Identification Patterns and Preferences for European Social Insurance

Nicoli

Kuhn

2020

J of Common Market Studies

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A degree of collective identity is often perceived to be a requirement for integration of core state powers, and even more so when redistributive measures are at stake. Existing research has shown that European identity is an important correlate of support for European social policy in general. This article explores the ways in which collective identities relate to the multidimensional nature of social policy at the European level. We explore in particular the features of European social policy that receive the most support from European publics, and how local, national and European identity moderates these preferences. We expect that people who have primarily sub‐national or national attachments are less supportive of generous schemes and schemes that involve greater cross‐country redistribution, and are more in favour of decentralized schemes administered by the member states than those with stronger European identities. We find support for these expectations in a conjoint survey experiment fielded in autumn 2018 in 13 EU member states.

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Section: Collective Identities and Support For European Social Pomentioning

confidence: 99%

Collective Identities, European Solidarity: Identification Patterns and Preferences for European Social Insurance

Nicoli

Kuhn

2020

J of Common Market Studies

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“…When a crisis affects internal market policies, the supranational EU institutions such as the Commission, the European Parliament, or the European Central Bank should play an important role. By contrast, this role should be much less pronounced when a crisis affects 'core state powers' (Genschel and Jachtenfuchs, 2016;Moravcsik, 1998;Tallberg, 2008).…”

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Public Attention, Governmental Bargaining, and Supranational Activism: Explaining European Integration in Response to Crises

Degner

2017

J of Common Market Studies

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Why and how do crises cause European integration? Going beyond case‐ and policy area‐specific analyses, the present paper develops a general, liberal intergovernmentalist model of the crisis‐integration link. The empirical process‐tracing test of this model is performed on two diverse cases of crises: the BSE Crisis 1996–2002 and the Euro Crisis 2010–13. The original analysis of primary documents and newspaper articles reveals that, as theoretically expected, crises stir high public attention and thus turn policy change in the affected policy areas into a salient issue for governments. This opens a ‘window of opportunity’ for domestic actors to approach their governments with change proposals. Governmental cost–benefit calculations, the distribution of bargaining power at the EU level, as well as supranational activism then explain deeper European integration in response to a crisis. With these findings, the present paper contributes to a broader understanding of the mechanisms of European integration in exceptional times.

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“…In most neo-functionalist and liberal intergovernmentalist writings, European integration has always entailed constraining mass politics. In response, national and European elites have developed a repertoire of 'conflict-minimising strategies' (Genschel and Jachtenfuchs 2016;Bickerton et al 2015) to limit the influence of politicisation. Most obviously, governments can exclude challenger parties by forming coalitions with pro-EU parties.…”

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Comparing the Politicisation of EU Integration during the Euro and Schengen Crises

Schuette

2019

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Although European integration has become an increasingly salient and controversial topic in domestic politics, the consequences of this politicisation of the European Union for the integration process have not received adequate scholarly attention. To fill this lacuna, this article devises five hypotheses on the effects of politicisation for the integration process, which are subsequently tested against the evidence of the Euro and Schengen crises. Both crises had comparable origins, but the Euro crisis caused substantial deepening of integration, while the Schengen crisis has not engendered any meaningful reforming steps. The empirical analysis finds that politicisation assumed different forms across the two crises, which is shown to be one causal factor that explains the variation in crises outcomes. The article thereby contributes to a multifaceted understanding of the politicisation of international institutions, EU integration theory and the dynamics of the Euro and Refugee crises.

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More integration, less federation: the European integration of core state powers

Cited by 177 publications

References 40 publications

Collective Identities, European Solidarity: Identification Patterns and Preferences for European Social Insurance

Collective Identities, European Solidarity: Identification Patterns and Preferences for European Social Insurance

Public Attention, Governmental Bargaining, and Supranational Activism: Explaining European Integration in Response to Crises

Comparing the Politicisation of EU Integration during the Euro and Schengen Crises

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