Political Elites and the Future of Europe: The Views of MPs and MEPs

Jenny, Marcelo; Pollak, Johannes; Slominski, Peter

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“…von Oertzen 2006). Die meisten Untersuchungen zu diesem Thema beziehen sich, um den empirischen Aufwand zu begrenzen, zumeist nur auf Rollenorientierungen von Abgeordneten (Patzelt 1997;Patzelt 2007;Blomgren u. Rozenberg 2012;Ilonszki u. Jáger 2011;Jenny et al 2006;Lengyel 2011;Mansfeldová 2011;Kropp 2010) oder von Beamten (Schwanke u. Ebinger 2006;Ebinger u. Schmitt 2010;Christensen 1991;Geuijen et al 2008). Bei letzteren erfolgte dies zudem häufig, ohne dass europarelevante Einstellungen berücksichtigt wurden, da für Längsschnittvergleiche bestehende Items wiederholt abgefragt wurden.…”

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Von den Schwierigkeiten, Zusammengehöriges zu vereinen – Nationale Parlamente und Exekutiven als Gegenstand der Europäisierungsforschung

Kropp¹,

Buzogány²,

Buche³

2012

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This article presents a critical overview of the state of research on the Europeanization of national parliaments and executives. We start from the assumption that patterns of governance as well as developments relevant to democratic theory can only be grasped comprehensively if parliamentary studies and research on public administrations are interlinked. Even though both strands of research have witnessed considerable empirical progress over the last decade, most studies still limit themselves either on the parliamentary or on the administrative side. Considering these ‚traditional' approaches, we review some of the most important outcomes of research on the Europeanization of national parliaments and administrations in a first step. In a second step, we discuss four ‚blind spots', which have so far remained unaddressed in most research agendas: the inclusion of actor-centered variables, executive-legislative interactions, policy-specific comparisons as well as the analysis of different parliamentary functions. We argue that eliminating these blind spots can lead to a deeper understanding of governance patterns in the EU multilevel system and conclude with calling for developing a comprehensive research agenda which takes into account these gaps.

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Von den Schwierigkeiten, Zusammengehöriges zu vereinen – Nationale Parlamente und Exekutiven als Gegenstand der Europäisierungsforschung

Kropp¹,

Buzogány²,

Buche³

2012

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Identity and Representation in the Perceptions of Political Elites and Public Opinion: A Comparison between Southern and Post-Communist Central-Eastern Europe

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Vázquez-García

2009

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The Europe of Elites

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It has been widely acknowledged that the process of European integration and unification was started and is still pursued as an elite project, designed to put an end to debilitating conflicts and rivalries by consolidating a common power base and by pooling Europe’s economic resources. Nevertheless elites have remained the known unknowns of the European integration process. The present volume is designed to change this. Based on surveys of political and economic elites in 18 European countries, it is a comprehensive study of the visions, fears, cognitions, and values of members of national parliaments and top business leaders underlying their attitudes towards European integration. It also investigates political and economic elites’ embeddedness in transnational networks and their ability to communicate in multicultural settings. Our book strongly supports the view of an elitist character of the process of European integration on the one hand, while challenging the idea that European national elites have merged or are even merging into a coherent Eurelite on the other. As the 11 chapters of this book show, the process of European integration is much more colourful and even contradictory than concepts of a straightforward normative and structural integration suggest. In particular this process is deeply rooted in and conditional on the social and political settings in national contexts. The empirical basis for this book is provided by the data of the international IntUne project, which has for the first time created a comprehensive database combining coordinated surveys of Europe-related attitudes at the elite and general population level.

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Political Elites and the Future of Europe: The Views of MPs and MEPs

Cited by 22 publications

References 19 publications

Von den Schwierigkeiten, Zusammengehöriges zu vereinen – Nationale Parlamente und Exekutiven als Gegenstand der Europäisierungsforschung

Von den Schwierigkeiten, Zusammengehöriges zu vereinen – Nationale Parlamente und Exekutiven als Gegenstand der Europäisierungsforschung

Identity and Representation in the Perceptions of Political Elites and Public Opinion: A Comparison between Southern and Post-Communist Central-Eastern Europe

The Europe of Elites

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