Conflicts of sovereignty in contemporary Europe: a framework of analysis

Bickerton, Christopher J.; Brack, Nathalie; Coman, Ramona; Crespy, Amandine

doi:10.1057/s41295-022-00269-6

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“…Without economic sovereignty, political sovereignty does not exist. In all of the member nations, party-based democracy is in crisis (Bickerton et al 2022). The European Sovereignty Index (Puglierin and Zerka 2022) confirms the limited institutional sovereignty of member nations.…”

Section: Institutions and Economic Developmentmentioning

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Issues of EU Member Nations’ Shared Sovereignty, Institutions, and Economic Development

Mardanov

2023

Economies

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To investigate the effects of the European Union’s (EU) member nations’ shared sovereignty on economic growth. The member nations have lost substantial political and economic independence (sovereignty) and democracy. Therefore, their governments cannot facilitate rapid economic growth in their countries, affecting the EU as a whole. Data from the World Bank, institutional research entities, and the EU were utilized. The dependent variable is economic growth, and the independent and moderating variables are mainly institutions and the European Sovereignty Index. Shared sovereignty and its specific categories and foreign direct investment (FDI) outflows negatively impact economic development in the EU. Shared sovereignty negatively moderates the relationship between political rights and economic development and between FDI outflows and economic development. Democracy in member nations is formal rather than real. The present study focused on the EU’s problems rather than its achievements and empirically investigated the direct and moderating effects of national sovereignty and member-country institutions on member-country economic growth. This focus and the nature of the investigation constitute the originality of the present study and reduce the gap in the literature about the effects of sovereignty, institutions, and capital spillovers (FDI outflows) on economic growth in Europe. The value of the study is in its findings, which should trigger holistic research efforts on the pros and cons of the EU for Europe, democracy, the economy, and the world.

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Section: Institutions and Economic Developmentmentioning

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Issues of EU Member Nations’ Shared Sovereignty, Institutions, and Economic Development

Mardanov

2023

Economies

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“…First, we agree with Linda Basile and Oscar Mazzoleni (2020) that sovereignism is not sovereignty. If it is true that conflicts concerning sovereignty are 'as old as the concept itself' (Bickerton et al 2022) and that the two concepts of sovereignism and sovereignty are clearly connected, it is also worth clarifying that in our understanding sovereignism does not overlap with sovereignty, but is rather its ideological and social interpretation.…”

Section: A Conceptual Definition Of Sovereignismmentioning

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Party-Based Sovereignism in EU Countries: Main Patterns and Their Justification

Angelucci,

Carrieri,

Conti

2024

Gov. & oppos.

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In this article, we examine party positions on sovereignty issues in European countries based on an analysis of party supply. First, we develop an index of sovereignism reflecting the multidimensional articulation and differentiated emphasis put by parties on sovereignist issues. By applying the index to Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES) data, the analysis maps all EU member states. Second, we integrate in the analysis party- and country-level data (including the orientations of domestic public opinion). Through multivariate regression analysis we show how party ideology, contextual factors and public mood favoured the spread of party-based sovereignism in European countries.

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“…The recent proliferation of sovereignty claims by a variety of actors can be interpreted as the result of a destabilisation of the post-World War II consensus on ‘shared’ or ‘pooled’ sovereignty. This destabilisation consequently led to an uncertainty over ‘who rules’ and opened the doors for multiple contending interpretations (Bickerton et al, 2022).…”

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Instrumentalising sovereignty claims in British pro- and anti-Brexit mobilisations

Rone

2022

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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Despite the growing literature on Brexit, specifically, and conflicts of sovereignty, more generally, there has been insufficient research on how the concept of sovereignty has been used in citizen campaigns and street protests across the United Kingdom – a form of ‘counter-democracy’ through which people attempted to oversee the post-referendum political process. Combining qualitative content analysis of campaign websites with a discourse-network analysis of media articles on Brexit protests, this article shows that claims to sovereignty were mobilised not only in conflicts between the United Kingdom and the European Union, but also in conflicts between different institutions within Britain itself. Both ‘Leavers’ and ‘Remainers’ appealed to popular and parliamentary sovereignty at different points in time, pragmatically adapting their framing according to changing circumstances but also as a result of a dynamic series of interactions with each other, including denying, keying and embracing their opponents’ frames. Crucially, conflicts around different institutionalisations of popular sovereignty did not demand system change, a rhetoric familiar from other protests of the 2010s such as Occupy Wall Street with its emphasis on ‘We are the 99%’. To the contrary, pro- and anti-Brexit mobilisations remained firmly focused on Brexit policy itself. They problematised the split between ‘Remainers’ and ‘Leavers’ within the United Kingdom, between 48% and 52%, and thus, on a deeper level, the tension between the political principle of popular sovereignty and the sociological reality of a split country. Finally, the more Leavers opposed Remainers, the more movements and parties on each of these two sides aligned. Politicians featured prominently in campaigns and as speakers at protest events, contributing to close cooperation between protesters and parties, and precluding anti-systemic discourses around popular sovereignty that would target parties and institutions altogether.

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Conflicts of sovereignty in contemporary Europe: a framework of analysis

Cited by 19 publications

References 43 publications

Issues of EU Member Nations’ Shared Sovereignty, Institutions, and Economic Development

Issues of EU Member Nations’ Shared Sovereignty, Institutions, and Economic Development

Party-Based Sovereignism in EU Countries: Main Patterns and Their Justification

Instrumentalising sovereignty claims in British pro- and anti-Brexit mobilisations

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