EU Actors under pressure

Politicisation and Depoliticisation as Strategic Responses

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7314243
AutoresEdoardo Bressanelli (0000-0002-9906-4949, Dirpolis Institute, Sant’Anna School, Pisa, Italy, autor correspondente), Christel Koop (0000-0002-7125-6439, King's College London), Christine Reh (Hertie School, Berlin, Germany)
Ano2020
Volume27
Fascículo3
Páginas329-341
Data de publicação2020-02-25
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of European Public Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1350-1763 • E-ISSN: 1466-4429
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13501763.2020.1713193
OpenAlexW3007077388
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas89
Referências citadas39

This contribution conceptualises bottom-up politicisation in Europe's multi-level system. EU-level actors, we argue, respond strategically to the functional and political pressures 'travelling up' from the member states. Perceiving domestic dissensus as either constraining or enabling, actors display both self-restraint and assertiveness in their responses. Motivated by the survival of the EU as a system 'under attack', and by the preservation of their own substantive and procedural powers, actors choose to either politicise or depoliticise decision-making, behaviour and policy outcomes at the supranational level. As a collection, this Special Issue demonstrate that the choices actors make 'under stress' at the EU-level – ranging from 'restrained depoliticisation' to 'assertive politicisation' – are, indeed, conditional on how bottom-up pressures are perceived and processed

Assertiveness · Economics · European union · International economics · Member states · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · European and International Law Studies · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Psychology · Regional Development and Policy · Social Psychology