Trans‐European Party Groupings: Emergence of New and Alignment of Old Parties in the Light of the Direct Elections to the European Parliament

Claey, Paul‐H.; Loeb-Mayer, Nicole

doi:10.1111/j.1477-7053.1979.tb00257.x

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“…The first and second direct elections in 1979 and 1984 resulted in the further fragmentation of the EP (Bomsdorf 1980;Claeys and Loeb-Mayer 1979). The alternative non-communist left emerged as a new political force.…”

Section: Ever Closer Union? Declining Reform Consensus In a More Fragmented Epmentioning

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Counter-narratives in the European Parliament: Far Left and Far Right Groups and European ‘union’ in the 1980s

Kaiser

2021

Journal of Contemporary European Studies

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This article proposes a temporal perspective for understanding the dynamics of political mobilisation around narratives and counternarratives of European 'union', which extends back to the Cold War period. As a starting point, it focusses on the narratives by far left and far right Groups about European 'union' in the European Parliament during the 1980s. Analysing narrative entrepreneurs and their storytelling during six debates on reforming the European Communities in the mid-1980s, it shows that the far right at the time latched three functional purposes on to its pro-integration narratives: reducing immigration, facilitating economic reform, and providing security against the communist threat. In contrast, large parts of the far left opposed further integration with counter-narratives. It seems that under changing scope conditions like the end of the Cold War and the transformation of the EC into the EU, narrative entrepreneurs were subsequently able to reappropriate their relatively stable narratives for very different functional needs.

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Section: Ever Closer Union? Declining Reform Consensus In a More Fragmented Epmentioning

confidence: 99%

Counter-narratives in the European Parliament: Far Left and Far Right Groups and European ‘union’ in the 1980s

Kaiser

2021

Journal of Contemporary European Studies

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“…Bardi, 1996;. Claeys and Loeb-Mayer (1979), for example, evaluate the "nature" of the European party federations that emerged in view of the 1979 elections and ask if there is "a step towards the formation of genuine parties" (p. 477). In the 1990s, Hix (1996) and Hix and Lord (1997) identify several phases in the evolution of Europarties.…”

Section: After the 1979 Direct Elections: Studies On The Emergence And Development Of Europartiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…At the time, scholars identified two most important constraints on progress towards real parties at the European level (e.g. Claeys & Loeb-Mayer, 1979;Pridham & Pridham, 1981).…”

Section: After the 1979 Direct Elections: Studies On The Emergence And Development Of Europartiesmentioning

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“…This included decisions about the course of very early European integration (Kaiser, 2007;, the fields of enlargement and development aid in the EC (Salm, 2016), accession to the EC (Gehler, 2010;Steinnes, 2008), and foreign affairs matters (Rathkolb, 2010). Bardi, 1996;Bell and Lord, 1998;Claeys and Loeb-Mayer, 1979;Dietz, 2000;Hix and Lord, 1997;Johansson, 1997;Ladrech, 1993;Niedermayer, 1983;Pridham and Pridham, 1981 Asks how national parties deal with the European Union • Focus: national parties' stances towards European integration • Little empirical research, mostly shows how national parties have developed positions on EU integration • Relevant authors: Aylott, 1997;Gaffney, 1996;Guyomarch, 1995;Raunio, 1999b Bardi and Calossi, 2009;Bressanelli, 2014;Delwit et al, 2004;Day, 2005;Gómez-Reino, 2018;Hanley, 2008;Hertner, 2011b;Johansson and Zervakis, 2002;Klüver and Rodon, 2012;Lightfoot, 2006;Van Hecke, 2010 Asks about the impact of European integration on national parties • Focus: signs of adaptation to the EU in national parties • Debate: about the extent to which changes in political parties can be attributed to European integration • Argument: national parties show some, but limited, signs of Europeanisation • Relevant authors: Aylott et al, 2013;Bomberg, 2002;Carter and Poguntke, 2010;Ladrech, 2002;Mair, 2007;M...…”

Section: 7| Studies On Actual Transnational Activities Of Europarties and National Partiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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People interested in the research are advised to contact the author for the final version of the publication, or visit the DOI to the publisher's website.• The final author version and the galley proof are versions of the publication after peer review.• The final published version features the final layout of the paper including the volume, issue and page numbers. Link to publication General rightsCopyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.• Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal. Introduction Setting the scene: National parties and democracy in the European UnionNational political parties are crucial actors in democratic systems. By participating in elections, they are the most important organisations that link citizens to the institutions of the state. Parties need to respond to the preferences and demands of citizens. And, if they win elections, they need to channel such preferences and demands into proposals for government policies (Sartori, [1976, p. 25). Fundamentally, then, in democratic systems, parties perform the function of "allowing the governed to express their demands freely and in such a way as to render them effective within the very machinery of government" (Sartori, 2005, p. 30). The performance of this function can, at heart, not be replaced by another institution, organisation, or group of actors (p. 28).In a well-functioning representative democracy, also the policies of the European Union (EU) would ultimately be the result of the expression of citizens' preferences (Hix, Kreppel & Noury, 2003, p. 310). The EU institutions take highly important policy decisions in many areas. From the area of foreign and security policy, in which they have limited, but special competences; to areas such as the internal market and regional policy, in which they share competences with the member states; and areas like trade, competition, and customs, in which they have exclusive competences. At the same time, member states retain competences to make legislation in other areas, including health and education. The EU is thus fundamentally a 'multi-level system': decisions are made both at the national, member state level and the supranational, EU level. These levels are inextricably linked to each other (Scharpf, 1994;.The democratic system of the EU is, however, particular. Most importantly, the "electoral connection" between citizens and parties at the European level is weak (Lindberg, Rasmussen & Warntjen, 2008, p. 1108. Granted, the European Parliament (EP) has become an important, directly elected instit...

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Trans‐European Party Groupings: Emergence of New and Alignment of Old Parties in the Light of the Direct Elections to the European Parliament

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Counter-narratives in the European Parliament: Far Left and Far Right Groups and European ‘union’ in the 1980s

Counter-narratives in the European Parliament: Far Left and Far Right Groups and European ‘union’ in the 1980s

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