Joseph Ganderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4036901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Ganderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Ganderson |
| SIGNATURE | GANDERSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5775-6349 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Membership crisis and the contested contemporary development of the European Union
This article compares two contemporary crises of the European Union: Brexit and Rule of Law concerns in Hungary and Poland. It makes two related contributions. First, it conceptualises and defines ‘membership crisis’, a category capturing the two cases. State-building theories – Rokkan’s developmental concepts of territorial bounding and binding authority; and Stepan’s federalist logics of holding and coming together – are combined in a sequentia…
What’s in a crisis? Taking contestation seriously in the study of Europe’s crisis politics
The study of European politics has taken a crisis-oriented turn. Yet despite a proliferation of new empirical research, crisis remains undertheorised as a unit of analysis in European studies. Part of the problem, we suggest, is an over-reliance on realist assumptions that treat crises as manifest threats, underestimating the extent to which they are also contingent political constructions. Systematically placing greater emphasis on the construct…
Partisanship and the nexus between regressive taxation and the welfare state
Regressive consumption taxes - especially value-added taxes (VATs) - are often seen as a “money machine”: they raise substantial revenue while sparing mobile capital, and thus are thought to help governments sustain generous welfare states under fiscal pressure. Existing accounts largely treat this “regressive tax-welfare nexus” as a structural relationship that operates independently of political context. We revisit this assumption by foreground…
Unequal Solidarity: Club Rules and Crisis Support in the European Polity
Is European solidarity during crises due to common or close identities? Or do Europeans punish rule‐breaking countries by showing them less solidarity? Research on the determinants of European solidarity increasingly focuses on ‘solidarity to’, how givers' attitudes are shaped by their perceptions of receiving member states. Amongst many, there are two possible channels of solidarity in the EU: either through a common identity or through the perc…
A Very European Way Out: Polity Maintenance and the Design of Article 50
Multilevel polities do not typically facilitate secession, so why did the European Union adopt Article 50? Revisiting formative debates from the 2003 Convention on the Future of Europe, we combine archival research with an original dataset of delegate debates over two levels: the existence and procedural operation of an exit article. This reveals essential new detail on the genealogy of Article 50. We locate this institutional innovation within a…
Braking and Exiting: Referendum Games, European Integration and the Road to the UK’s Brexit Vote
The UK's in-out referendum on European Union membership is often attributed to an incompatibility inherent in the UK-EU relationship, or else a rising tide of Euroscepticism forcing a reckoning. We argue that the referendum should be understood as the culmination of parliamentary 'referendum games' in the preceding years, whereby backbenchers periodically applied pressure to office-seeking leaders who strategically defused this by promising publi…
Exiting after Brexit: Public perceptions of future European Union member state departures
Public opinion scholarship suggests that Europeans broadly interpret Brexit as a cautionary fable rather than an encouraging blueprint to follow. Yet, Brexit singularly demonstrates the possibility of European disintegration, and is but one of multiple recent crises that have brought the potential for member state departures into focus. Drawing on new survey data from 16 countries and using logistic regressions, this article charts Europeans' per…
Quiet unity: Salience, politicisation and togetherness in the EU’s Brexit negotiating position
A surprising feature of Brexit has been the united front the EU-27 presented during post-referendum negotiations. This membership crisis arrived when the EU had been facing multiple overlapping political and economic crises revealing deep cleavages both between and within member states. How did negotiations prevent a widening politicisation of European integration? In this article a novel dataset is used, containing national and European newspape…
Brexit – the EU membership crisis that wasn’t
This introduction to the special issue recalls the alarm raised in EU capitals and Brussels after the UK's in-out referendum delivered a Leave vote in June 2016. The fear was of a domino effect and the further fragmentation of an already divided EU. Seven years later, it is clear that there was rapid attrition of Eurosceptic triumphalism, and the EU-27 showed remarkable unity. This required a sustained collective effort to contain a membership cr…
Who is afraid of emergency politics? Public opinion on European crisis management during Covid-19
After a decade of crisis management, the democratic implications of emergency modes of governance in the European Union (EU) are under the spotlight. The prevailing analysis is critical. Scholars point to an emergent, distinctly European trend of transnational crisis exploitation where elite appeals to exceptional pressures serve asymmetric power and influence, overriding democratic norms and potentially fuelling Eurosceptic backlash. However, th…
The strength of a weak centre: Pandemic politics in the European Union and the United States
The European Union presents a puzzle to political systems scholars: how can a developing polity, with all its attendant functional weaknesses, be rendered politically stable even through moments of a policy crisis? Building on insights from the literature on fiscal federalism, this article challenges much conventional wisdom on Europe’s incompleteness. This is based on the corollary of Jonathan Rodden’s concept of Hamilton’s Paradox : whereas a s…
Prawn Cocktails and Cold Shoulders: Labour, the Conservatives and the City of London since the 1990s
This article charts surprising departures in how the two major British parties have cultivated and regulated financial services since the 1990s. During this time, Labour leaderships have consistently sought to accommodate the City, while the Conservatives have defied it at important junctures. This pattern of behaviour challenges the assumption in classical business power theory that Conservatives should be more attuned to finance's preferences t…
Buying time for democracies? European Union emergency politics in the time of Covid-19
Published online: 18 May 2021
Buying time for democracies? European Union emergency politics in the time of Covid-19
Published online: 18 May 2021
The strength of a weak centre: Pandemic politics in the European Union and the United States
The European Union presents a puzzle to political systems scholars: how can a developing polity, with all its attendant functional weaknesses, be rendered politically stable even through moments of a policy crisis? Building on insights from the literature on fiscal federalism, this article challenges much conventional wisdom on Europe’s incompleteness. This is based on the corollary of Jonathan Rodden’s concept of Hamilton’s Paradox : whereas a s…
Quiet unity: Salience, politicisation and togetherness in the EU’s Brexit negotiating position
A surprising feature of Brexit has been the united front the EU-27 presented during post-referendum negotiations. This membership crisis arrived when the EU had been facing multiple overlapping political and economic crises revealing deep cleavages both between and within member states. How did negotiations prevent a widening politicisation of European integration? In this article a novel dataset is used, containing national and European newspape…
Brexit – the EU membership crisis that wasn’t
This introduction to the special issue recalls the alarm raised in EU capitals and Brussels after the UK's in-out referendum delivered a Leave vote in June 2016. The fear was of a domino effect and the further fragmentation of an already divided EU. Seven years later, it is clear that there was rapid attrition of Eurosceptic triumphalism, and the EU-27 showed remarkable unity. This required a sustained collective effort to contain a membership cr…
A Very European Way Out: Polity Maintenance and the Design of Article 50
Multilevel polities do not typically facilitate secession, so why did the European Union adopt Article 50? Revisiting formative debates from the 2003 Convention on the Future of Europe, we combine archival research with an original dataset of delegate debates over two levels: the existence and procedural operation of an exit article. This reveals essential new detail on the genealogy of Article 50. We locate this institutional innovation within a…
Who is afraid of emergency politics? Public opinion on European crisis management during Covid-19
After a decade of crisis management, the democratic implications of emergency modes of governance in the European Union (EU) are under the spotlight. The prevailing analysis is critical. Scholars point to an emergent, distinctly European trend of transnational crisis exploitation where elite appeals to exceptional pressures serve asymmetric power and influence, overriding democratic norms and potentially fuelling Eurosceptic backlash. However, th…
Exiting after Brexit: Public perceptions of future European Union member state departures
Public opinion scholarship suggests that Europeans broadly interpret Brexit as a cautionary fable rather than an encouraging blueprint to follow. Yet, Brexit singularly demonstrates the possibility of European disintegration, and is but one of multiple recent crises that have brought the potential for member state departures into focus. Drawing on new survey data from 16 countries and using logistic regressions, this article charts Europeans' per…
Prawn Cocktails and Cold Shoulders: Labour, the Conservatives and the City of London since the 1990s
This article charts surprising departures in how the two major British parties have cultivated and regulated financial services since the 1990s. During this time, Labour leaderships have consistently sought to accommodate the City, while the Conservatives have defied it at important junctures. This pattern of behaviour challenges the assumption in classical business power theory that Conservatives should be more attuned to finance's preferences t…
Buying time for democracies? European Union emergency politics in the time of Covid-19
Published online: 18 May 2021
Prawn Cocktails and Cold Shoulders: Labour, the Conservatives and the City of London since the 1990s
This article charts surprising departures in how the two major British parties have cultivated and regulated financial services since the 1990s. During this time, Labour leaderships have consistently sought to accommodate the City, while the Conservatives have defied it at important junctures. This pattern of behaviour challenges the assumption in classical business power theory that Conservatives should be more attuned to finance's preferences t…
Who is afraid of emergency politics? Public opinion on European crisis management during Covid-19
After a decade of crisis management, the democratic implications of emergency modes of governance in the European Union (EU) are under the spotlight. The prevailing analysis is critical. Scholars point to an emergent, distinctly European trend of transnational crisis exploitation where elite appeals to exceptional pressures serve asymmetric power and influence, overriding democratic norms and potentially fuelling Eurosceptic backlash. However, th…
The strength of a weak centre: Pandemic politics in the European Union and the United States
The European Union presents a puzzle to political systems scholars: how can a developing polity, with all its attendant functional weaknesses, be rendered politically stable even through moments of a policy crisis? Building on insights from the literature on fiscal federalism, this article challenges much conventional wisdom on Europe’s incompleteness. This is based on the corollary of Jonathan Rodden’s concept of Hamilton’s Paradox : whereas a s…
Braking and Exiting: Referendum Games, European Integration and the Road to the UK’s Brexit Vote
The UK's in-out referendum on European Union membership is often attributed to an incompatibility inherent in the UK-EU relationship, or else a rising tide of Euroscepticism forcing a reckoning. We argue that the referendum should be understood as the culmination of parliamentary 'referendum games' in the preceding years, whereby backbenchers periodically applied pressure to office-seeking leaders who strategically defused this by promising publi…
Exiting after Brexit: Public perceptions of future European Union member state departures
Public opinion scholarship suggests that Europeans broadly interpret Brexit as a cautionary fable rather than an encouraging blueprint to follow. Yet, Brexit singularly demonstrates the possibility of European disintegration, and is but one of multiple recent crises that have brought the potential for member state departures into focus. Drawing on new survey data from 16 countries and using logistic regressions, this article charts Europeans' per…
Quiet unity: Salience, politicisation and togetherness in the EU’s Brexit negotiating position
A surprising feature of Brexit has been the united front the EU-27 presented during post-referendum negotiations. This membership crisis arrived when the EU had been facing multiple overlapping political and economic crises revealing deep cleavages both between and within member states. How did negotiations prevent a widening politicisation of European integration? In this article a novel dataset is used, containing national and European newspape…
Brexit – the EU membership crisis that wasn’t
This introduction to the special issue recalls the alarm raised in EU capitals and Brussels after the UK's in-out referendum delivered a Leave vote in June 2016. The fear was of a domino effect and the further fragmentation of an already divided EU. Seven years later, it is clear that there was rapid attrition of Eurosceptic triumphalism, and the EU-27 showed remarkable unity. This required a sustained collective effort to contain a membership cr…
Partisanship and the nexus between regressive taxation and the welfare state
Regressive consumption taxes - especially value-added taxes (VATs) - are often seen as a “money machine”: they raise substantial revenue while sparing mobile capital, and thus are thought to help governments sustain generous welfare states under fiscal pressure. Existing accounts largely treat this “regressive tax-welfare nexus” as a structural relationship that operates independently of political context. We revisit this assumption by foreground…
Unequal Solidarity: Club Rules and Crisis Support in the European Polity
Is European solidarity during crises due to common or close identities? Or do Europeans punish rule‐breaking countries by showing them less solidarity? Research on the determinants of European solidarity increasingly focuses on ‘solidarity to’, how givers' attitudes are shaped by their perceptions of receiving member states. Amongst many, there are two possible channels of solidarity in the EU: either through a common identity or through the perc…
A Very European Way Out: Polity Maintenance and the Design of Article 50
Multilevel polities do not typically facilitate secession, so why did the European Union adopt Article 50? Revisiting formative debates from the 2003 Convention on the Future of Europe, we combine archival research with an original dataset of delegate debates over two levels: the existence and procedural operation of an exit article. This reveals essential new detail on the genealogy of Article 50. We locate this institutional innovation within a…
Membership crisis and the contested contemporary development of the European Union
This article compares two contemporary crises of the European Union: Brexit and Rule of Law concerns in Hungary and Poland. It makes two related contributions. First, it conceptualises and defines ‘membership crisis’, a category capturing the two cases. State-building theories – Rokkan’s developmental concepts of territorial bounding and binding authority; and Stepan’s federalist logics of holding and coming together – are combined in a sequentia…
What’s in a crisis? Taking contestation seriously in the study of Europe’s crisis politics
The study of European politics has taken a crisis-oriented turn. Yet despite a proliferation of new empirical research, crisis remains undertheorised as a unit of analysis in European studies. Part of the problem, we suggest, is an over-reliance on realist assumptions that treat crises as manifest threats, underestimating the extent to which they are also contingent political constructions. Systematically placing greater emphasis on the construct…
Politics (12 works) · European union (11 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Brexit (6 works) · European integration (6 works)