Edoardo Bressanelli - Strategic Responses to Domestic Contestation: The Eu Between Politicisation and Depoliticisation

How have EU-level actors responded to the increase in salience and contestation across the member states? This volume explores and explains the actors strategic responses and emphasises that domestic pressure has triggered both depoliticisation and politicisation.

Long gone are the times when EU decisions left citizens indifferent, and when the supranational was largely irrelevant for public opinion and electoral politics across the member states. Instead, a string of existential crises has struck and unsettled the Union over more than a decade. These crises have politicised Europe, tested the endurance of the supranational system to its core, and put EU-level actors under unprecedented pressure. This volume explores how and why EU-level actors respond to the various, sometimes competing, bottom-up demands, and challenges the view that domestic contestation necessarily limits EU-level room for manoeuvre. Instead, contributions show that domestic pressure can be perceived as either constraining or enabling, with responses, therefore, ranging from the restrained to the assertive. Driven by the survival of the Union, by the preservation of their own powers, and by different perceptions of domestic demands, actors will choose to politicise or depoliticise decision-making, behaviour, and policy outcomes at the supranational level. The volume concludes that whilst domestic pressure triggers supranational responses, such responses should not be assumed to be restraining; they may equally be empowering including for European integration itself.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

Edoardo Bressanelli is Montalcini Assistant Professor in the Institute of Law, Politics and Development at the SantAnna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy, and Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Kings College London, United Kingdom.

Christel Koop is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Economy at Kings College London, United Kingdom.

Christine Reh is Professor of European Politics and Dean of Graduate Programmes at the Hertie School in Berlin, Germany.

Jeremy Richardsonis Emeritus Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University, UK, and an Adjunct Professor in the National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Berthold Rittbergeris Professor and Chair of International Relations at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute of Political Science at the University of Munich, Germany.

This series seeks to bring together some of the finest edited works on European Public Policy. Reprinting from Special Issues of the Journal of European Public Policy, the focus is on using a wide range of social sciences approaches, both qualitative and quantitative, to gain a comprehensive and definitive understanding of Public Policy in Europe.

Policies, Outcomes and Politics

Integration and Politicization in an Age of Shifting Cleavages

The EU Between Politicisation and Depoliticisation

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The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of European Public Policy, volume 27, issue 3 (March 2020). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows: