Credit positive or negative? Credit rating agencies’ framing of Brexit’s implications for the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, the EU, and the Northern Ireland peace process
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12736680 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthony Cawley (0000-0001-7428-2010, Liverpool Hope University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 519-535 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary European Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1478-2790 • E-ISSN: 1478-2804 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14782804.2021.2023483 |
| OpenAlex | W4205790877 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 39 |
Among Brexit’s implications was its potential to destabilise the Northern Ireland peace process, cast doubt on the future status of the Irish border, and weaken the constitutional integrity of both the UK and the EU. A less publicly visible aspect of Brexit, however, was the weight such implications carried in how international credit rating agencies evaluated the creditworthiness of the EU, the UK, and the other state most affected by the Leave vote, the Republic of Ireland (ROI). A frames analysis of the agencies’ discourse during the withdrawal period, from 2016 to 2020, suggested that their privileging of market perspectives had the effect of shaping but also of limiting their engagement with Brexit’s socio-cultural, identity and political implications for the border and the peace process. In particular, the agencies drew weak discursive links between Brexit as an instance of EU disintegration and its implications for the peace process and for the ROI’s shifting geopolitical relations as a continuing member state. This was further reflected in the agencies’ tendency to underplay socio-cultural, identity and political implications in their discourse on potential future processes of UK and EU disintegration
Brexit · Business · Credit rating · Ethnology · European union · Financial system · Framing (construction · Geography · International trade · Northern ireland · Political science · Sociology · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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The Political Economy of Communication
The Communicative Construction of Europe
Ireland, 1912–1985
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Brexit, nationalism and disintegration in the European Union and the United Kingdom
Rebooting European Identity
Brexit and its Consequences
When Polanyi met Farage
Credit rating agencies and the sovereign debt crisis
Unionisms in times of change
The legitimacy of exits from the European Union
Northern Ireland and Brexit
The dual crisis in Irish foreign policy
The DUP and the European Union
Brexit and Northern Ireland
The Brexit crisis, Ireland and British–Irish relations
Doing News Framing Analysis II
An Elusive Trans-National Public Sphere
The Brexit vote
Resilient blunderers
Ireland and crisis governance
Europe’s Union
European Union crises and Irish public opinion
The agreement’s impact on economic and business cooperation
Choosing between unions? Unionist opinion and the challenge of brexit
Framing
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |