The European Union Beyond the Polycrisis?
The European Union Beyond the Polycrisis? explores the political dynamics of multiple crises faced by the EU, both at European level and within the member states. In so doing, it provides a state-of-the-art overview of current research on the relationship between politicization and European integration.
The book proposes that the EUs multi-dimensional crisis can be seen as a multilevel politics trap, from which the Union is struggling to escape. The individual contributions analyze the mechanisms of this trap, its relationship to the multiple crises currently faced by the EU, and the strategies pursued by a plurality of actors (the Commission, the European Parliament, national governments) to cope with its constraints. Overall, the book suggests that comprehensive, grand bargains are for the moment out of reach, although national and supranational actors can find ways of relaxing the politics trap and in so doing perhaps lay the foundations for more ambitious future solutions. This book, dedicated to the exploration of the political dynamics of multiple, simultaneous crises, offers an empirical and theoretical assessment of the existing political constraints on European integration.
Analyzing domestic and European political reactions to the EUs polycrisis and assessing how EU institutions, national governments and broader publics have responded to a new era of politicization, The European Union Beyond the Polycrisis? will be of great interest to scholars of European politics and the EU, as well as professionals working in EU institutions, national administrations and European advocacy groups. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.
Jonathan Zeitlin is Distinguished Faculty Professor of Public Policy and Governance in the Political Science Department at the University of Amsterdam, and Academic Director of the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES). His current research focuses on new forms of experimentalist governance within and beyond the EU.
Francesco Nicoli is Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Economy at the University of Amsterdam, and Assistant Professor of Economic Governance in the Economics Department at the University of Ghent. His research focuses on the relationship between the Eurocrisis and the politicization of the EU in public opinion, elections and institutional development.
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Jeremy Richardson is 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 Rittberger is 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
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The European Union Beyond the Polycrisis?
Integration and Politicization in an Age of Shifting Cleavages Edited by Jonathan Zeitlin and Francesco Nicoli
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The European Union Beyond the Polycrisis?
Integration and Politicization in an Age of Shifting Cleavages
Edited by
Jonathan Zeitlin and Francesco Nicoli
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Contents
Jonathan Zeitlin, Francesco Nicoli and Brigid Laffan
Michael Zrn
Swen Hutter and Hanspeter Kriesi
Vivien A. Schmidt
Nicolas Jabko and Meghan Luhman
Frank Schimmelfennig
Katharina L. Meissner and Magnus G. Schoeller
Julia Schulte-Cloos
The following chapters were originally published in the Journal of European Public Policy volume 26, issue 7 (2019). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
Introduction: the European Union beyond the polycrisis? Integration and politicization in an age of shifting cleavages
Jonathan Zeitlin, Francesco Nicoli and Brigid Laffan
Journal of European Public Policy, volume 26, issue 7 (2019), pp. 963976
Chapter 2
Politicization compared: at national, European, and global levels
Michael Zrn
Journal of European Public Policy, volume 26, issue 7 (2019), pp. 977995
Chapter 3
Politicizing Europe in times of crisis
Swen Hutter and Hanspeter Kriesi
Journal of European Public Policy, volume 26, issue 7 (2019), pp. 9961017
Chapter 4
Politicization in the EU: between national politics and EU political dynamics
Vivien A. Schmidt
Journal of European Public Policy, volume 26, issue 7 (2019), pp. 10181036
