Laura Cram
Biographic Data
| ID | 4239221 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Cram |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Cram |
| SIGNATURE | CRAM L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4775-171X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 328 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
An uneasy union: The moral and ideological divides of territorial identification in post-Brexit Scotland
Value differences are often implicated as drivers of European identity, yet little is known about how moral values shape divisions over European identity in multi-level polities. We assess how patterns of moral values are associated with Scottish, British and European identification in post-Brexit Scotland. Fielding an online survey, we use Bayesian regression to evaluate our pre-registered hypotheses about moral expansiveness, moral foundations,…
Communicating Europe: A computational analysis of the evolution of the European Commission’s communication on Twitter
Social media is an important means of communication for political agencies, which makes it possible to engage with large sectors of the public. For institutions which are not directly elected by voters, such as the European Commission (EC), social media can be a strategic tool for increasing perceived legitimacy and citizen engagement, especially in contexts of high politicization. In this paper, we use natural language processing techniques to p…
For Whom the Bell Trolls: Shifting Troll Behaviour in the Twitter Brexit Debate
In 2017 Twitter released a list of 2,752 accounts believed to be connected to state‐sponsored Russian operative manipulation of the 2016 American Election. We investigate the behaviour of these accounts in the UK–EU referendum using our own unique longitudinal Twitter dataset. We identify Brexit‐related content from 419 of these accounts, totalling 3,485 tweets between 29 August 2015 and 3 October 2017. While these accounts were primarily designe…
Fair Is Fair, or Is It? Territorial Identity Triggers Influence Ultimatum Game Behavior
Fairness perception underpins the concept of societal solidarity and is central to regime cohesion, collective identity, and popular legitimacy. The European Union faces challenges on all of these fronts. Perceptions of intergroup (un)fairness and of being “left behind,” for example, provided much of the momentum behind the U.K. Brexit decision. Fairness perception is not, however, an objectively reliable measure. In/outgroup alignments, includin…
Better the devil you know: Threat effects and attachment to the European Union
Does the EU Need a Navel? Implicit and Explicit Identification with the European Union
Analysts should expect neither too much from European Union identity and its causal role in driving the integration process, nor too little, by underestimating the stabilizing force of implicit identification with the EU. Daily transactions in an EU institutional context embed an acceptance of the EU as a legitimate political authority and underpin passive consent to the continued functioning of the EU. The emergence of explicit EU identification…
The importance of the temporal dimension: New Modes of Governance as a Tool of Government
This article offers an alternative perspective to those which view 'new modes of governance' as evidence of a democratic-participatory turn in the European Union. The temporal dimension in public policy analysis is emphasized. New modes of governance, such as the Open Method of Co-ordination and civil dialogue, are unlikely to reduce the democratic deficit in the short term. Indeed by enhancing the role of unelected institutions and allowing nati…
Introduction: Banal Europeanism: European Union identity and national identities in synergy 1
Identity and European integration: Diversity as a Source of Integration 1
This article explores the concept of European Union identity and its significance for European integration by drawing upon insights from theories of nationalism and national identity. European Union identity is viewed as an ongoing process which is banal, contingent and contextual. The central hypothesis is that: European integration facilitates the flourishing of diverse national identities rather than convergence around a single homogeneous Eur…
Introduction to Special Issue on the Institutional Balance and the Future of EU Governance: The Future of the Union and the Trap of the “Nirvana Fallacy
The question of the “institutional balance” strikes at the very core of what the European Union is and where it is headed. In Declaration 23 of the Treaty of Nice, member states committed themselves to launching “a deeper and wider debate about the future of the Union” (point 3). As the articles in this volume indicate, in addressing the future of the Union, it is crucial that member states and the institutions dispel the myths upon which some of…
Whither the Commission? Reform, renewal and the issue-attention cycle
Whither the Commission?' is a question faced by officials within the Commission, would-be architects of the EU and academic observers of the EU policy process. The Commission crisis of 1999, the rise of new actors and the increased power of existing actors (such as the EP) have brought the role of the Commission to the height of the 'issue-attention cycle'. As well as instigating a comprehensive internal reform process under the guidance of Commi…
Governance ‘to Go: Domestic Actors, Institutions and the Boundaries of the Possible
How to ‘bring Europe closer to the people’ has long been a preoccupation of the policy‐maker at the EU level and has recently been restated as a goal of the member governments in the Treaty of Nice. Currently, the Commission is addressing this issue through the White Paper on European Governance. Here, it is argued that the focus on ‘governance’ as a strategy for inclusion was ill founded and underestimated the likely conflict with existing ‘gove…
Book notes
S. Leibfried and P. Pierson (eds) (1995) European Social Policy: Between Fragmentation and Integration (Washington DC: Brookings Institution), i‐ix, 1–492 pp.; ISBN 0 8157 5248 2; £35.95 Jack Hayward (ed.) (1995) Industrial Enterprise and European Integration: From National to International Champions in Western Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press), i‐xi, 1–366 pp.; ISBN 0 198 27972 8; (hbk) £35 R. Gillespie, F. Rodrigo and J. Story (eds) (199…
European Level Business Collective Action: The Study Agenda Ahead
Book notes
Democratic Community (NOMOS XXXV) edited by John W. Chapman and Ian Shapiro. New York and London: University Press, 1993. Pp.xiv + 451; index. £38.50 (hardback). ISBN 0 8147 1497 8 European Politics Today: The Democratic Experience by Frank L. Wilson. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice‐Hall, 1994. Pp.x + 437; index. £36.50 (hardback). ISBN 013 292954 6 The Politics of Consensus: For the Resolution of Conflict and Reform of Majority Rule by P.J. Emers…
The European commission as a multi‐organization: Social policy and IT policy in the EU
The underlying theme of this article is that to understand the process of European integration, it is vital to understand the dynamics of the European policy‐making process and the crucial role of the European institutions within this process. In this article the internal dynamics of the policy‐making process within the European Commission in two directorates (DG V [Employment, Industrial Relations and Social Affairs] and DG XIII [Telecommunicati…
Book notes
Political Participation and Democracy in Britain by Geraint Parry, George Moyser and Neil Day. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp.xviii + 510; index, bibliography, three appendices. £60 (hardback); £17.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 521 33298 2 and 33602 3 Work and Citizenship in the New Europe edited by Harry Coenen and Peter Leisink. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1993. Pp.254; index, bibliography. £38.50. ISBN 1 85278 739 2 Capitalist Developme…
Women's political participation in Greece since the fall of the Colonels: From democratic struggle to incorporation by the party‐state
This article examines the changing nature of women's political participation in Greece and argues that the period since 1974 has seen a shift from political participation through women's involvement in popular democratic struggles to the increasing incorporation of the women's movement by the Greek ‘party‐state’. From 1967–74 Greece lived under the repressive dictatorship of the Colonels. Yet Greece now enjoys some of the most progressive legisla…
Calling the Tune Without Paying the Piper? Social policy regulation: The role of the Commission in European Community social policy
Regulatory policy is presently the principal form of European Community (EC) social policy legislation affecting European citizens. One possible explanation of this trend is that the Commission, far from being a neutral bureaucracy, has been an active force in pushing outward the frontiers of Community social policy. Expanding its skills, and learning from past experience, the Commission makes maximum use of its limited powers in the social spher…
The European commission as a multi‐organization: Social policy and IT policy in the EU
The underlying theme of this article is that to understand the process of European integration, it is vital to understand the dynamics of the European policy‐making process and the crucial role of the European institutions within this process. In this article the internal dynamics of the policy‐making process within the European Commission in two directorates (DG V [Employment, Industrial Relations and Social Affairs] and DG XIII [Telecommunicati…
Calling the Tune Without Paying the Piper? Social policy regulation: The role of the Commission in European Community social policy
Regulatory policy is presently the principal form of European Community (EC) social policy legislation affecting European citizens. One possible explanation of this trend is that the Commission, far from being a neutral bureaucracy, has been an active force in pushing outward the frontiers of Community social policy. Expanding its skills, and learning from past experience, the Commission makes maximum use of its limited powers in the social spher…
Does the EU Need a Navel? Implicit and Explicit Identification with the European Union
Analysts should expect neither too much from European Union identity and its causal role in driving the integration process, nor too little, by underestimating the stabilizing force of implicit identification with the EU. Daily transactions in an EU institutional context embed an acceptance of the EU as a legitimate political authority and underpin passive consent to the continued functioning of the EU. The emergence of explicit EU identification…
Introduction: Banal Europeanism: European Union identity and national identities in synergy 1
Identity and European integration: Diversity as a Source of Integration 1
This article explores the concept of European Union identity and its significance for European integration by drawing upon insights from theories of nationalism and national identity. European Union identity is viewed as an ongoing process which is banal, contingent and contextual. The central hypothesis is that: European integration facilitates the flourishing of diverse national identities rather than convergence around a single homogeneous Eur…
Whither the Commission? Reform, renewal and the issue-attention cycle
Whither the Commission?' is a question faced by officials within the Commission, would-be architects of the EU and academic observers of the EU policy process. The Commission crisis of 1999, the rise of new actors and the increased power of existing actors (such as the EP) have brought the role of the Commission to the height of the 'issue-attention cycle'. As well as instigating a comprehensive internal reform process under the guidance of Commi…
Governance ‘to Go: Domestic Actors, Institutions and the Boundaries of the Possible
How to ‘bring Europe closer to the people’ has long been a preoccupation of the policy‐maker at the EU level and has recently been restated as a goal of the member governments in the Treaty of Nice. Currently, the Commission is addressing this issue through the White Paper on European Governance. Here, it is argued that the focus on ‘governance’ as a strategy for inclusion was ill founded and underestimated the likely conflict with existing ‘gove…
The importance of the temporal dimension: New Modes of Governance as a Tool of Government
This article offers an alternative perspective to those which view 'new modes of governance' as evidence of a democratic-participatory turn in the European Union. The temporal dimension in public policy analysis is emphasized. New modes of governance, such as the Open Method of Co-ordination and civil dialogue, are unlikely to reduce the democratic deficit in the short term. Indeed by enhancing the role of unelected institutions and allowing nati…
Fair Is Fair, or Is It? Territorial Identity Triggers Influence Ultimatum Game Behavior
Fairness perception underpins the concept of societal solidarity and is central to regime cohesion, collective identity, and popular legitimacy. The European Union faces challenges on all of these fronts. Perceptions of intergroup (un)fairness and of being “left behind,” for example, provided much of the momentum behind the U.K. Brexit decision. Fairness perception is not, however, an objectively reliable measure. In/outgroup alignments, includin…
For Whom the Bell Trolls: Shifting Troll Behaviour in the Twitter Brexit Debate
In 2017 Twitter released a list of 2,752 accounts believed to be connected to state‐sponsored Russian operative manipulation of the 2016 American Election. We investigate the behaviour of these accounts in the UK–EU referendum using our own unique longitudinal Twitter dataset. We identify Brexit‐related content from 419 of these accounts, totalling 3,485 tweets between 29 August 2015 and 3 October 2017. While these accounts were primarily designe…
Introduction to Special Issue on the Institutional Balance and the Future of EU Governance: The Future of the Union and the Trap of the “Nirvana Fallacy
The question of the “institutional balance” strikes at the very core of what the European Union is and where it is headed. In Declaration 23 of the Treaty of Nice, member states committed themselves to launching “a deeper and wider debate about the future of the Union” (point 3). As the articles in this volume indicate, in addressing the future of the Union, it is crucial that member states and the institutions dispel the myths upon which some of…
Women's political participation in Greece since the fall of the Colonels: From democratic struggle to incorporation by the party‐state
This article examines the changing nature of women's political participation in Greece and argues that the period since 1974 has seen a shift from political participation through women's involvement in popular democratic struggles to the increasing incorporation of the women's movement by the Greek ‘party‐state’. From 1967–74 Greece lived under the repressive dictatorship of the Colonels. Yet Greece now enjoys some of the most progressive legisla…
Better the devil you know: Threat effects and attachment to the European Union
European Level Business Collective Action: The Study Agenda Ahead
Calling the Tune Without Paying the Piper? Social policy regulation: The role of the Commission in European Community social policy
Regulatory policy is presently the principal form of European Community (EC) social policy legislation affecting European citizens. One possible explanation of this trend is that the Commission, far from being a neutral bureaucracy, has been an active force in pushing outward the frontiers of Community social policy. Expanding its skills, and learning from past experience, the Commission makes maximum use of its limited powers in the social spher…
The European commission as a multi‐organization: Social policy and IT policy in the EU
The underlying theme of this article is that to understand the process of European integration, it is vital to understand the dynamics of the European policy‐making process and the crucial role of the European institutions within this process. In this article the internal dynamics of the policy‐making process within the European Commission in two directorates (DG V [Employment, Industrial Relations and Social Affairs] and DG XIII [Telecommunicati…
Book notes
Political Participation and Democracy in Britain by Geraint Parry, George Moyser and Neil Day. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp.xviii + 510; index, bibliography, three appendices. £60 (hardback); £17.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 521 33298 2 and 33602 3 Work and Citizenship in the New Europe edited by Harry Coenen and Peter Leisink. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1993. Pp.254; index, bibliography. £38.50. ISBN 1 85278 739 2 Capitalist Developme…
Women's political participation in Greece since the fall of the Colonels: From democratic struggle to incorporation by the party‐state
This article examines the changing nature of women's political participation in Greece and argues that the period since 1974 has seen a shift from political participation through women's involvement in popular democratic struggles to the increasing incorporation of the women's movement by the Greek ‘party‐state’. From 1967–74 Greece lived under the repressive dictatorship of the Colonels. Yet Greece now enjoys some of the most progressive legisla…
Book notes
Democratic Community (NOMOS XXXV) edited by John W. Chapman and Ian Shapiro. New York and London: University Press, 1993. Pp.xiv + 451; index. £38.50 (hardback). ISBN 0 8147 1497 8 European Politics Today: The Democratic Experience by Frank L. Wilson. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice‐Hall, 1994. Pp.x + 437; index. £36.50 (hardback). ISBN 013 292954 6 The Politics of Consensus: For the Resolution of Conflict and Reform of Majority Rule by P.J. Emers…
Book notes
S. Leibfried and P. Pierson (eds) (1995) European Social Policy: Between Fragmentation and Integration (Washington DC: Brookings Institution), i‐ix, 1–492 pp.; ISBN 0 8157 5248 2; £35.95 Jack Hayward (ed.) (1995) Industrial Enterprise and European Integration: From National to International Champions in Western Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press), i‐xi, 1–366 pp.; ISBN 0 198 27972 8; (hbk) £35 R. Gillespie, F. Rodrigo and J. Story (eds) (199…
European Level Business Collective Action: The Study Agenda Ahead
Whither the Commission? Reform, renewal and the issue-attention cycle
Whither the Commission?' is a question faced by officials within the Commission, would-be architects of the EU and academic observers of the EU policy process. The Commission crisis of 1999, the rise of new actors and the increased power of existing actors (such as the EP) have brought the role of the Commission to the height of the 'issue-attention cycle'. As well as instigating a comprehensive internal reform process under the guidance of Commi…
Governance ‘to Go: Domestic Actors, Institutions and the Boundaries of the Possible
How to ‘bring Europe closer to the people’ has long been a preoccupation of the policy‐maker at the EU level and has recently been restated as a goal of the member governments in the Treaty of Nice. Currently, the Commission is addressing this issue through the White Paper on European Governance. Here, it is argued that the focus on ‘governance’ as a strategy for inclusion was ill founded and underestimated the likely conflict with existing ‘gove…
Introduction to Special Issue on the Institutional Balance and the Future of EU Governance: The Future of the Union and the Trap of the “Nirvana Fallacy
The question of the “institutional balance” strikes at the very core of what the European Union is and where it is headed. In Declaration 23 of the Treaty of Nice, member states committed themselves to launching “a deeper and wider debate about the future of the Union” (point 3). As the articles in this volume indicate, in addressing the future of the Union, it is crucial that member states and the institutions dispel the myths upon which some of…
Introduction: Banal Europeanism: European Union identity and national identities in synergy 1
Identity and European integration: Diversity as a Source of Integration 1
This article explores the concept of European Union identity and its significance for European integration by drawing upon insights from theories of nationalism and national identity. European Union identity is viewed as an ongoing process which is banal, contingent and contextual. The central hypothesis is that: European integration facilitates the flourishing of diverse national identities rather than convergence around a single homogeneous Eur…
The importance of the temporal dimension: New Modes of Governance as a Tool of Government
This article offers an alternative perspective to those which view 'new modes of governance' as evidence of a democratic-participatory turn in the European Union. The temporal dimension in public policy analysis is emphasized. New modes of governance, such as the Open Method of Co-ordination and civil dialogue, are unlikely to reduce the democratic deficit in the short term. Indeed by enhancing the role of unelected institutions and allowing nati…
Does the EU Need a Navel? Implicit and Explicit Identification with the European Union
Analysts should expect neither too much from European Union identity and its causal role in driving the integration process, nor too little, by underestimating the stabilizing force of implicit identification with the EU. Daily transactions in an EU institutional context embed an acceptance of the EU as a legitimate political authority and underpin passive consent to the continued functioning of the EU. The emergence of explicit EU identification…
Better the devil you know: Threat effects and attachment to the European Union
Fair Is Fair, or Is It? Territorial Identity Triggers Influence Ultimatum Game Behavior
Fairness perception underpins the concept of societal solidarity and is central to regime cohesion, collective identity, and popular legitimacy. The European Union faces challenges on all of these fronts. Perceptions of intergroup (un)fairness and of being “left behind,” for example, provided much of the momentum behind the U.K. Brexit decision. Fairness perception is not, however, an objectively reliable measure. In/outgroup alignments, includin…
For Whom the Bell Trolls: Shifting Troll Behaviour in the Twitter Brexit Debate
In 2017 Twitter released a list of 2,752 accounts believed to be connected to state‐sponsored Russian operative manipulation of the 2016 American Election. We investigate the behaviour of these accounts in the UK–EU referendum using our own unique longitudinal Twitter dataset. We identify Brexit‐related content from 419 of these accounts, totalling 3,485 tweets between 29 August 2015 and 3 October 2017. While these accounts were primarily designe…
Communicating Europe: A computational analysis of the evolution of the European Commission’s communication on Twitter
Social media is an important means of communication for political agencies, which makes it possible to engage with large sectors of the public. For institutions which are not directly elected by voters, such as the European Commission (EC), social media can be a strategic tool for increasing perceived legitimacy and citizen engagement, especially in contexts of high politicization. In this paper, we use natural language processing techniques to p…
An uneasy union: The moral and ideological divides of territorial identification in post-Brexit Scotland
Value differences are often implicated as drivers of European identity, yet little is known about how moral values shape divisions over European identity in multi-level polities. We assess how patterns of moral values are associated with Scottish, British and European identification in post-Brexit Scotland. Fielding an online survey, we use Bayesian regression to evaluate our pre-registered hypotheses about moral expansiveness, moral foundations,…
Law (18 works) · Political science (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Politics (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · European union (12 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (7 works)