Revisiting the politicization of the EU. A three-dimensional approach

Does Politicization Matter for EU Representation? A Comparison of Four European Parliament Elections*

“…We thus recommend that researchers examine whether representation at the national arena has been affected by increasing levels of politicization of European issues, if at all (see Ares et al, 2017, for a focus on spill over effects). Examples of such contestation include the recurring Eurozone crisis (for example Lobo and Karremans, 2018) as well as the impact of the global health crisis resulting from Covid-19. In sum, we hope that our article inspires scholarship and sets an extensive research agenda of conceptual and empirical questions that future work can address.…”

The imbalanced effect of politicization: How EU politicization favours Eurosceptic parties

“…Research shows that EU politicization has grown (at different paces) across much of the European Union, often prompted by the growing transfer of powers to European institutions, political and economic crises (such as the Great Recession, the Refugee crisis, Brexit), as well as elections and referendums (Börzel and Risse, 2018;De Bruycker, 2017;De Wilde and Zürn, 2012;Kriesi, 2016;Schmidt, 2019;Statham and Trenz, 2015;Turnbull-Dugarte, 2020). Once again, political parties and the media are thought to have played a prominent role in the increasing polarization and salience of the EU issue over time (Bellamy and Kröger, 2016;Braun et al, 2016;Bressanelli et al, 2020;Carrieri, 2020;Costa Lobo and Karremans, 2018;De Bruycker, 2017;Grossman et al, 2019;Hoeglinger, 2016;Hurrelmann et al, 2020;Hutter et al, 2016;Hutter and Kerscher, 2014;Risse, 2014).…”

Studying (De-)Politicization of the EU from a Citizens Point of View: A New Comparative Focus Group Study

“…Yet, while the politicization of the EU by political parties and media is now well documented (Statham and Trenz, 2013;Hurrelmann et al, 2013;Costa Lobo and Karremans, 2018;Braun et al, 2016;Grande and Hutter, 2016;Hurrelmann et al, 2020;De Bruycker, 2017), the picture is muddier when it comes to citizens. While some studies report the increased impact of European issues on individual vote choice (Belot and Van Ingelgom, 2015;Beaudonnet and Gomez, 2017;Goldberg et al, 2020), others demonstrate citizens' indifference to and ambivalence over European integration (Duchesne et al, 2013;Van Ingelgom, 2014;Baglioni and Hurrelmann, 2016;Palonen et al, 2019;Le Corre Juratic et al, 2020).…”