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A Postfunctionalist Theory of European Integration: From Permissive Consensus to Constraining Dissensus
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In this article, the authors claim that European integration has become politicized in elections and referendums, and as a result, the preferences of the general public and of national political parties have become decisive for jurisdictional outcomes.Abstract:
Preferences over jurisdictional architecture are the product of three irreducible logics: efficiency, distribution and identity. This article substantiates the following claims: (a) European integration has become politicized in elections and referendums; (b) as a result, the preferences of the general public and of national political parties have become decisive for jurisdictional outcomes; (c) identity is critical in shaping contestation on Europe.read more
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Democracy and Legitimacy in the European Union Revisited: Input, Output and ‘Throughput’
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the EU's legitimacy is mainly defined by output effectiveness for the people and input participation by the people, and they define and discuss this third normative criterion as well as the interaction effects of all three normative criteria.
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An Agenda for a Reformed Cohesion Policy A place-based approach to meeting European Union challenges and expectations
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The Brexit vote: a divided nation, a divided continent
TL;DR: The authors found that the divide between winners and losers of globalization was a key driver of the British EU exit, particularly among less-educated, poorer and older voters, and those who expressed concerns about immigration and multi-culturalism.
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Cleavage theory meets Europe’s crises: Lipset, Rokkan, and the transnational cleavage
TL;DR: The authors argue that the perforation of national states by immigration, integration and trade may signify a critical juncture in the political development of Europe no less consequential for political parties and party systems than the previous junctures that Lipset and Rokkan detect in their classic article.
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Explaining the salience of anti-elitism and reducing political corruption for political parties in Europe with the 2014 Chapel Hill Expert Survey data
Jonathan Polk,Jan Rovny,Ryan Bakker,Erica Edwards,Liesbet Hooghe,Seth Jolly,Jelle Koedam,Filip Kostelka,Gary Marks,Gijs Schumacher,Marco R. Steenbergen,Milada Anna Vachudova,Marko Zilovic +12 more
TL;DR: In this article, the variation of anti-corruption and anti-elite saliency in party positioning across Europe was studied. And it was shown that while anticorruption salience is primarily related to the (regional) context in which a party operates, anti-ELite salience was primarily a function of party ideology, and extreme left and extreme conservative (TAN) parties are significantly more likely to emphasize antielite views.
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Neofunctionalism, European identity, and the puzzles of European integration
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the relationship between neofunctional reasoning and the study of collective identities and show that socialization into European identity works not so much through transnational processes or through exposure to European institutions, but on the national levels in a process whereby Europeanness or "becoming European" is gradually being embedded in understandings of national identities.
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Euroscepticism and Conservative Electoral Support: How an Asset Became a Liability
TL;DR: This paper used the British Election Panel Study to assess the impact of voters' and party positions vis-a-vis European integration on Conservative electoral support between 1992 and 1996, finding that Conservative divisions over Europe helped turn this potential electoral asset into a liability, leaving the party further from individual voters' own positions than were either of the other two main political contenders.
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European and National Identities in the EU's Old and New Member States: Ethnic, Civic, Instrumental and Symbolic Components
TL;DR: The authors empirically test three of the most significant theories about the emergence of a European identity: cultural theory, instrumental theory and civic theory, and find that national and European identities are compatible.
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Political Parties in Dire Straits? Consequences of National Referendums for Political Parties
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the challenges that political parties face in referendums, and find that efficacious voters are likely to disregard the recommendation of their preferred party, while politically disinterested voters are more likely to follow the party endorsement.
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