Ben Crum
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4115136 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ben Crum |
| NOMBRES | Ben |
| APELLIDO | Crum |
| FIRMA | BEN CRUM |
| AFILIACIONES | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4330-295X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 345 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Fair enough? Citizens’ preferences on refugee distribution in the EU
How should asylum seekers be distributed across EU member states? And can EU citizens agree on the principles underlying such distribution? While scholars have proposed various fairness principles – such as allocation based on population size, wealth, or past intake – we know little about which principles citizens support. Using an original population survey in six EU member states, this study examines public preferences for distributive fairness…
What Is the Structure of Political Contestation on Digital Policy in Europe? Evidence From the DSA/DMA Package
In recent years, the European Union (EU) expanded its digital regulatory competences. However, it is not clear which political trade‐offs occur in decision‐making on digital policy issues. This study examines how European parliamentarians and their party groups position themselves on these issues and which conflict lines emerge. Analysing roll call votes and party‐group press releases on the Digital Services Act (DSA) and Digital Markets Act (DMA…
Brussels effect or experimentalism? The EU AI Act and global standard-setting
Looking at the nature of AI technology and the contents of the EU AI Act, the external impact of the Act is better understood in terms of experimentalist governance than in terms of the much-cited ‘Brussels effect’
Party Dynamics in the 2024 European Parliament Elections
Although European Parliament elections usually lead to relatively minor shifts between party-groups, these shifts can have far-ranging consequences for the distribution of power in the European Union. The European elections of 2024 resulted in losses for the Liberals, the Social-Democrats, and the Greens. The radical right gained seats, and it engaged in a process of group reconfiguration, in which the former Identity and Democracy group was succ…
Democracy and pluralism after European integration
Recent years have seen multiple controversies between the EU and its member states that revolve around different conceptions of what kind of polity the EU is, and what it should be. These controversies are particularly heated when fundamental democratic values are at stake. In this article, we address the fundamental tension between the assertion of common EU values and the pluralistic character of the EU polity, both among and within member stat…
EU parliaments in a post-constitutionalising stage
More than a decade has passed since the Lisbon Treaty explicated two channels of democratic representation in the European Union (EU): one directly through the European Parliament (EP) and one indirectly through national parliaments. This review article uses a wave of recent case studies to analyse how relations between national parliaments and the EP have evolved in practice in the post-Lisbon period. We develop a conceptual framework of the org…
Models of EU Constitutional Reform
Constitutional reform in the European Union suffers from a post-functionalist dilemma: the options that are politically viable are not democratically legitimate and the options that are democratically legitimate are not politically viable. Against the background of the recent Conference on the Future of Europe and the involvement of transnational European Citizens’ Panels, this article asks whether there is any prospect of overcoming this dilemma…
Why the European Parliament lost the Spitzenkandidaten -process
Research has demonstrated how the European Parliament has expanded its powers vis-à-vis other EU institutions by strategically exploiting powers it already holds and appealing to its contribution to democratic legitimacy. However, established theories are challenged by the failure of the EP to secure the election of a so-called Spitzenkandidat to the post of European Commission President in 2019. Was this failure an incidental set-back or does it…
Information or Accountability? A Research Agenda on European Commissioners in National Parliaments
Research on national parliaments in the EU has greatly expanded since the Treaty of Lisbon fully recognized their role in providing democratic legitimacy for EU decision‐making. However, the direct interaction between national parliaments and the European Commission has received little academic attention. This research note seeks to frame a research agenda that explores whether, and under which conditions, the Commission visits to national parlia…
Patterns of contestation across EU parliaments
Studies of political contestation of EU decision making usually focus on the division lines in the European Parliament and, to a lesser extent, the Council of Ministers. This article seeks to broaden the analysis of the contestation of EU politics by conceptualising EU contestation across the EU’s ‘multilevel parliamentary field’. It distinguishes three ideal-typical structures of contestation – national, inter-institutional, and transnational co…
Democratic legitimacy in the post-crisis EMU
This paper examines the democratic legitimacy of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) since the international financial crisis hit the euro area. From its inception, EMU has been marked by an asymmetry as its monetary pillar relied on output legitimacy while its economic pillar relied essentially on input legitimacy at the national level. The crisis severely challenged EMU’s output legitimacy, which led to the establishment of new European-level ins…
Transnational Representation in EU National Parliaments
This article introduces the notion of ‘transnational representation’ to refer to claims by national parliamentarians on behalf of citizens of other national constituencies. Thus defined, transnational representation combines insights from the constructivist turn in the theory of democratic representation with a renewed focus on national parliaments as the prime institutional sites of representation. A focus on transnational representation advance…
Parliamentary accountability in multilevel governance
How has the new structure of European Union (EU) economic governance affected the ability of parliaments (national and European) to scrutinize and control economic policy? Departing from the premise that executive power needs to be matched by appropriate parliamentary control, this contribution argues that parliamentary powers have been compromised in EU economic governance. Although budgetary powers remain formally at the national level, governm…
Saving the Euro at the Cost of Democracy
This article explores the implications of the financial crisis for the relationship between monetary integration and democratic government in the E uropean U nion ( EU ). As the crisis has exposed the original balance that economic and monetary union ( EMU ) sought to maintain between monetary integration and policy diversity to be unsustainable, the eurozone is put before the choice of one of three governance models: executive federalism, democr…
Veto Power
Veto Power: Institutional Design in the European Union By Jonathan B. Slapin University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2011, 196 pp., $60.00, ISBN 9780472117932 (hbk) The title of Jonathan Slapin's
Learning from the EU Constitutional Treaty
Introduction 1. Avoiding Democratic Constitutionalization in the European Union 2. Democratic Constitutionalisation beyond the Nation-State: A Normative Theory 3. Competing Visions of the Future of the European Union 4. The European Convention as a Forum of Supranational Constitution-Making 5. A Constitutional Treaty for a Union of Citizens and States 6. The External Accountability of the European Convention 7. Bringing the Constitutional Treaty …
Accountability and Personalisation of the European Council Presidency
While the European Council has come to be a key institution in the EU, its accountability has been rather indirect and limited. Individually its members are held to account in their domestic systems. Collectively, however, accountability appears limited to the presidential addresses to the European Parliament. This may well change if the rotating European Council Presidency were to be replaced by a permanent, elected president. This article prese…
The Multilevel Parliamentary Field
This article introduces the concept of the ‘Multilevel Parliamentary Field’ as a means for analysing the structure of democratic representation in the European Union (EU). This concept is warranted for several reasons. First, the multilevel configuration that makes up the EU contains two channels of democratic representation: one directly through the European Parliament, the other indirectly through the national parliaments and governments. These…
Explaining Decisions in the European Union
The Least Dangerous Chair
In recent years, Jonas Tallberg has published a number of notable articles on “the power of the chair” in multilateral negotiations, looking in particular at the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) (see, for example, Tallberg 2003, 2004). In a field that has traditionally been dominated by political practitioners and game theorists, Tallberg has developed an original perspective that draws on institutionalist approaches …
Can the EU Presidency make its mark on interstate bargains? The Italian and Irish Presidencies of the 2003–04 IGC
According to liberal intergovernmentalism the outcome of EU negotiations is determined by the constellation of member state interests without needing any formal leadership. This article reviews this 'self-clearing thesis' in the context of the 2003-04 IGC. It further examines what impact the European Convention, which prepared a comprehensive draft Constitutional Treaty, has had on these negotiations. Three roles of the Italian and the Irish Pres…
Party Stances in the Referendums on the EU Constitution
This article examines political party behaviour around the referendums on the EU Constitutional Treaty in 2005. Starting from the presumption that this behaviour needs to be analysed in the light of the domestic government-opposition dynamics, a set of hypotheses on the causes and consequences of party behaviour in EU Treaty referendums is developed and reviewed for the EU member states in which a referendum was held or anticipated. As it turns o…
The Accidental Constitution. The Story of the European Convention
Parliamentarization of the CFSP through informal institution-making? The fifth European Parliament and the EU high representative
Ben Crum*Ben Crum is a Lecturer in Political Science at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Resistance to Europe as a carrier of mass-elite incongruence
The Multilevel Parliamentary Field
This article introduces the concept of the ‘Multilevel Parliamentary Field’ as a means for analysing the structure of democratic representation in the European Union (EU). This concept is warranted for several reasons. First, the multilevel configuration that makes up the EU contains two channels of democratic representation: one directly through the European Parliament, the other indirectly through the national parliaments and governments. These…
Parliamentary accountability in multilevel governance
How has the new structure of European Union (EU) economic governance affected the ability of parliaments (national and European) to scrutinize and control economic policy? Departing from the premise that executive power needs to be matched by appropriate parliamentary control, this contribution argues that parliamentary powers have been compromised in EU economic governance. Although budgetary powers remain formally at the national level, governm…
Saving the Euro at the Cost of Democracy
This article explores the implications of the financial crisis for the relationship between monetary integration and democratic government in the E uropean U nion ( EU ). As the crisis has exposed the original balance that economic and monetary union ( EMU ) sought to maintain between monetary integration and policy diversity to be unsustainable, the eurozone is put before the choice of one of three governance models: executive federalism, democr…
Party Stances in the Referendums on the EU Constitution
This article examines political party behaviour around the referendums on the EU Constitutional Treaty in 2005. Starting from the presumption that this behaviour needs to be analysed in the light of the domestic government-opposition dynamics, a set of hypotheses on the causes and consequences of party behaviour in EU Treaty referendums is developed and reviewed for the EU member states in which a referendum was held or anticipated. As it turns o…
Transnational Representation in EU National Parliaments
This article introduces the notion of ‘transnational representation’ to refer to claims by national parliamentarians on behalf of citizens of other national constituencies. Thus defined, transnational representation combines insights from the constructivist turn in the theory of democratic representation with a renewed focus on national parliaments as the prime institutional sites of representation. A focus on transnational representation advance…
Democratic legitimacy in the post-crisis EMU
This paper examines the democratic legitimacy of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) since the international financial crisis hit the euro area. From its inception, EMU has been marked by an asymmetry as its monetary pillar relied on output legitimacy while its economic pillar relied essentially on input legitimacy at the national level. The crisis severely challenged EMU’s output legitimacy, which led to the establishment of new European-level ins…
Parliamentarization of the CFSP through informal institution-making? The fifth European Parliament and the EU high representative
Ben Crum*Ben Crum is a Lecturer in Political Science at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Why the European Parliament lost the Spitzenkandidaten -process
Research has demonstrated how the European Parliament has expanded its powers vis-à-vis other EU institutions by strategically exploiting powers it already holds and appealing to its contribution to democratic legitimacy. However, established theories are challenged by the failure of the EP to secure the election of a so-called Spitzenkandidat to the post of European Commission President in 2019. Was this failure an incidental set-back or does it…
Accountability and Personalisation of the European Council Presidency
While the European Council has come to be a key institution in the EU, its accountability has been rather indirect and limited. Individually its members are held to account in their domestic systems. Collectively, however, accountability appears limited to the presidential addresses to the European Parliament. This may well change if the rotating European Council Presidency were to be replaced by a permanent, elected president. This article prese…
Politics and Power in the European Convention
The Convention on the future of the European Union has been heralded by many as a unique political setting. So far the process of EU Treaty change was subject to the collision of national political interests in Intergovernmental Conferences. By contrast, the Convention appears to promise a fundamentally open and normatively informed arena. This article probes the validity of this promise by dissecting the political dynamics of the Convention alon…
Can the EU Presidency make its mark on interstate bargains? The Italian and Irish Presidencies of the 2003–04 IGC
According to liberal intergovernmentalism the outcome of EU negotiations is determined by the constellation of member state interests without needing any formal leadership. This article reviews this 'self-clearing thesis' in the context of the 2003-04 IGC. It further examines what impact the European Convention, which prepared a comprehensive draft Constitutional Treaty, has had on these negotiations. Three roles of the Italian and the Irish Pres…
Legislative—Executive Relations in the EU
This article outlines and evaluates competing views of the future organization of legislative—executive relationships in the European Union (EU). It argues that the organization of legislative—executive relations faces three challenges: to streamline the organization of powers, to convey democratic accountability, and to accommodate diversity between Member States' interests. By systematically analysing member governments' contributions to the de…
EU parliaments in a post-constitutionalising stage
More than a decade has passed since the Lisbon Treaty explicated two channels of democratic representation in the European Union (EU): one directly through the European Parliament (EP) and one indirectly through national parliaments. This review article uses a wave of recent case studies to analyse how relations between national parliaments and the EP have evolved in practice in the post-Lisbon period. We develop a conceptual framework of the org…
Party Dynamics in the 2024 European Parliament Elections
Although European Parliament elections usually lead to relatively minor shifts between party-groups, these shifts can have far-ranging consequences for the distribution of power in the European Union. The European elections of 2024 resulted in losses for the Liberals, the Social-Democrats, and the Greens. The radical right gained seats, and it engaged in a process of group reconfiguration, in which the former Identity and Democracy group was succ…
Democracy and pluralism after European integration
Recent years have seen multiple controversies between the EU and its member states that revolve around different conceptions of what kind of polity the EU is, and what it should be. These controversies are particularly heated when fundamental democratic values are at stake. In this article, we address the fundamental tension between the assertion of common EU values and the pluralistic character of the EU polity, both among and within member stat…
Patterns of contestation across EU parliaments
Studies of political contestation of EU decision making usually focus on the division lines in the European Parliament and, to a lesser extent, the Council of Ministers. This article seeks to broaden the analysis of the contestation of EU politics by conceptualising EU contestation across the EU’s ‘multilevel parliamentary field’. It distinguishes three ideal-typical structures of contestation – national, inter-institutional, and transnational co…
The Accidental Constitution. The Story of the European Convention
Models of EU Constitutional Reform
Constitutional reform in the European Union suffers from a post-functionalist dilemma: the options that are politically viable are not democratically legitimate and the options that are democratically legitimate are not politically viable. Against the background of the recent Conference on the Future of Europe and the involvement of transnational European Citizens’ Panels, this article asks whether there is any prospect of overcoming this dilemma…
Information or Accountability? A Research Agenda on European Commissioners in National Parliaments
Research on national parliaments in the EU has greatly expanded since the Treaty of Lisbon fully recognized their role in providing democratic legitimacy for EU decision‐making. However, the direct interaction between national parliaments and the European Commission has received little academic attention. This research note seeks to frame a research agenda that explores whether, and under which conditions, the Commission visits to national parlia…
Procedures, Justice, and Choice In Basic Education Policy
This article is about the way in which justice and procedures are related in the development of policies meeting new claims to choice in basic education. Building upon established approaches to procedural justice, I propose to study the interaction between questions of justice and procedures by way of the “gate model” as developed by Peters (1993) and Habermas (1994). This model is then applied in an analysis of education policymaking in Great Br…
Legislative—Executive Relations in the EU
This article outlines and evaluates competing views of the future organization of legislative—executive relationships in the European Union (EU). It argues that the organization of legislative—executive relations faces three challenges: to streamline the organization of powers, to convey democratic accountability, and to accommodate diversity between Member States' interests. By systematically analysing member governments' contributions to the de…
Genesis and assessment of the grand institutional settlement of the European convention
This article charts the genesis of the proposals adopted by the European Convention on the EU institutions on the assumption that a proper understanding of this evolution can help us in assessing their quality. The article first outlines the background against which these proposals were conceived. Then the various stages of the Convention’s debate are recounted. In conclusion it is submitted that the Convention’s proposals embody some important s…
Politics and Power in the European Convention
The Convention on the future of the European Union has been heralded by many as a unique political setting. So far the process of EU Treaty change was subject to the collision of national political interests in Intergovernmental Conferences. By contrast, the Convention appears to promise a fundamentally open and normatively informed arena. This article probes the validity of this promise by dissecting the political dynamics of the Convention alon…
The Accidental Constitution. The Story of the European Convention
Parliamentarization of the CFSP through informal institution-making? The fifth European Parliament and the EU high representative
Ben Crum*Ben Crum is a Lecturer in Political Science at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Least Dangerous Chair
In recent years, Jonas Tallberg has published a number of notable articles on “the power of the chair” in multilateral negotiations, looking in particular at the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) (see, for example, Tallberg 2003, 2004). In a field that has traditionally been dominated by political practitioners and game theorists, Tallberg has developed an original perspective that draws on institutionalist approaches …
Can the EU Presidency make its mark on interstate bargains? The Italian and Irish Presidencies of the 2003–04 IGC
According to liberal intergovernmentalism the outcome of EU negotiations is determined by the constellation of member state interests without needing any formal leadership. This article reviews this 'self-clearing thesis' in the context of the 2003-04 IGC. It further examines what impact the European Convention, which prepared a comprehensive draft Constitutional Treaty, has had on these negotiations. Three roles of the Italian and the Irish Pres…
Party Stances in the Referendums on the EU Constitution
This article examines political party behaviour around the referendums on the EU Constitutional Treaty in 2005. Starting from the presumption that this behaviour needs to be analysed in the light of the domestic government-opposition dynamics, a set of hypotheses on the causes and consequences of party behaviour in EU Treaty referendums is developed and reviewed for the EU member states in which a referendum was held or anticipated. As it turns o…
Explaining Decisions in the European Union
Accountability and Personalisation of the European Council Presidency
While the European Council has come to be a key institution in the EU, its accountability has been rather indirect and limited. Individually its members are held to account in their domestic systems. Collectively, however, accountability appears limited to the presidential addresses to the European Parliament. This may well change if the rotating European Council Presidency were to be replaced by a permanent, elected president. This article prese…
The Multilevel Parliamentary Field
This article introduces the concept of the ‘Multilevel Parliamentary Field’ as a means for analysing the structure of democratic representation in the European Union (EU). This concept is warranted for several reasons. First, the multilevel configuration that makes up the EU contains two channels of democratic representation: one directly through the European Parliament, the other indirectly through the national parliaments and governments. These…
Learning from the EU Constitutional Treaty
Introduction 1. Avoiding Democratic Constitutionalization in the European Union 2. Democratic Constitutionalisation beyond the Nation-State: A Normative Theory 3. Competing Visions of the Future of the European Union 4. The European Convention as a Forum of Supranational Constitution-Making 5. A Constitutional Treaty for a Union of Citizens and States 6. The External Accountability of the European Convention 7. Bringing the Constitutional Treaty …
Veto Power
Veto Power: Institutional Design in the European Union By Jonathan B. Slapin University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2011, 196 pp., $60.00, ISBN 9780472117932 (hbk) The title of Jonathan Slapin's
Saving the Euro at the Cost of Democracy
This article explores the implications of the financial crisis for the relationship between monetary integration and democratic government in the E uropean U nion ( EU ). As the crisis has exposed the original balance that economic and monetary union ( EMU ) sought to maintain between monetary integration and policy diversity to be unsustainable, the eurozone is put before the choice of one of three governance models: executive federalism, democr…
Parliamentary accountability in multilevel governance
How has the new structure of European Union (EU) economic governance affected the ability of parliaments (national and European) to scrutinize and control economic policy? Departing from the premise that executive power needs to be matched by appropriate parliamentary control, this contribution argues that parliamentary powers have been compromised in EU economic governance. Although budgetary powers remain formally at the national level, governm…
Democratic legitimacy in the post-crisis EMU
This paper examines the democratic legitimacy of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) since the international financial crisis hit the euro area. From its inception, EMU has been marked by an asymmetry as its monetary pillar relied on output legitimacy while its economic pillar relied essentially on input legitimacy at the national level. The crisis severely challenged EMU’s output legitimacy, which led to the establishment of new European-level ins…
Transnational Representation in EU National Parliaments
This article introduces the notion of ‘transnational representation’ to refer to claims by national parliamentarians on behalf of citizens of other national constituencies. Thus defined, transnational representation combines insights from the constructivist turn in the theory of democratic representation with a renewed focus on national parliaments as the prime institutional sites of representation. A focus on transnational representation advance…
Patterns of contestation across EU parliaments
Studies of political contestation of EU decision making usually focus on the division lines in the European Parliament and, to a lesser extent, the Council of Ministers. This article seeks to broaden the analysis of the contestation of EU politics by conceptualising EU contestation across the EU’s ‘multilevel parliamentary field’. It distinguishes three ideal-typical structures of contestation – national, inter-institutional, and transnational co…
Models of EU Constitutional Reform
Constitutional reform in the European Union suffers from a post-functionalist dilemma: the options that are politically viable are not democratically legitimate and the options that are democratically legitimate are not politically viable. Against the background of the recent Conference on the Future of Europe and the involvement of transnational European Citizens’ Panels, this article asks whether there is any prospect of overcoming this dilemma…
Why the European Parliament lost the Spitzenkandidaten -process
Research has demonstrated how the European Parliament has expanded its powers vis-à-vis other EU institutions by strategically exploiting powers it already holds and appealing to its contribution to democratic legitimacy. However, established theories are challenged by the failure of the EP to secure the election of a so-called Spitzenkandidat to the post of European Commission President in 2019. Was this failure an incidental set-back or does it…
Information or Accountability? A Research Agenda on European Commissioners in National Parliaments
Research on national parliaments in the EU has greatly expanded since the Treaty of Lisbon fully recognized their role in providing democratic legitimacy for EU decision‐making. However, the direct interaction between national parliaments and the European Commission has received little academic attention. This research note seeks to frame a research agenda that explores whether, and under which conditions, the Commission visits to national parlia…
Resistance to Europe as a carrier of mass-elite incongruence
Brussels effect or experimentalism? The EU AI Act and global standard-setting
Looking at the nature of AI technology and the contents of the EU AI Act, the external impact of the Act is better understood in terms of experimentalist governance than in terms of the much-cited ‘Brussels effect’
Party Dynamics in the 2024 European Parliament Elections
Although European Parliament elections usually lead to relatively minor shifts between party-groups, these shifts can have far-ranging consequences for the distribution of power in the European Union. The European elections of 2024 resulted in losses for the Liberals, the Social-Democrats, and the Greens. The radical right gained seats, and it engaged in a process of group reconfiguration, in which the former Identity and Democracy group was succ…
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