Contested international agreements, contested national politics: how the radical left and the radical right opposed TTIP in four European countries

Rone, Julia

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“…It has become common to note that social movements during the anti-austerity wave mainly addressed national targets – after the Global Justice Movement’s unsuccessful attempts to target EU politics in the early 2000s (Flesher Fominaya, 2017; Kaldor and Selchow, 2013). Similarly, Rone (2018) shows how recent protest against TTIP was shaped by distinct national debates. Therefore, the Europeanization of social movements is not a linear process, but, as in the case of Stop Vivisection, can be reverted.…”

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The European Citizens’ Initiative: Mobilization Strategies and Consequences

Weisskircher

2019

Political Studies

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Research on the European Citizens’ Initiative has neglected the crucial role of social movements. This article contributes to the study of mobilization strategies and campaign consequences through two novel arguments: First, in explaining successful mobilization, I argue that the European Citizens’ Initiative as a political opportunity structure incentivizes the organization of nationally focused campaigns centred in at least one large, that is, populous state, instead of Europe-wide activism. Second, in explaining the multiple consequences of European Citizens’ Initiative mobilization, I show that a campaign may have important, often unintended, effects beyond (the failure to achieve) policy change, including disappointment with the democratic process leading to European Citizens’ Initiative reform and a renewed focus on national politics. This article provides an in-depth analysis of one of the only five European Citizens’ Initiative campaigns that have been able to collect the required one million signatures, while referring to other campaigns as shadow cases. The findings have important implications for debates on EU democracy.

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The European Citizens’ Initiative: Mobilization Strategies and Consequences

Weisskircher

2019

Political Studies

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“…Garcia‐Duran et al (2020) have shown how the European Commission, in its communication, has sought to contain bottom‐up politicisation by both emphasising the role of the EU in managing globalisation and by directly countering populist narratives (See also Eliasson and Garcia‐Duran, this Special Issue). Others have highlighted how the mobilisation of civil society actors and the political opportunity structures available to them (Gheyle, 2020), as well as the behaviour of political parties (Rone, 2018), are crucial drivers of politicisation.…”

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Varieties of EU trade politicisation in EU public debates

2023

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This paper examines the politicisation of EU trade policy at the level of the EU's Member States. In an effort to study the variation of politicisation across the EU, going beyond the degree to which an issue is politicised, we map out the debates surrounding EU free trade agreements (TTIP and CETA) in the media of Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Poland, based on a novel representative claims analysis dataset. We ask whether and how claimants from different EUMS attempt to politicise FTAs in distinct ways. The expectation, based on Castles and Obinger' families of nations, is that the behaviour of claimants belonging to the same family of nations displays overarching features, which sets them apart from other claimants. By way of an actor-level regression analysis, this study identifies possible correlations between claimant nationalities and types of politicisation. The findings suggest, on the one hand, that there is a link between families of nations, the socio-economic and institutional trajectories they capture, and types of politicisation. On the other hand, the variation in how issues are politicised is not random but, just like policy outcomes, it appears to 'cluster' following a territoriality logic.

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“…Namely, the party 'shall give due consideration to the views of the Committee, together with its recommendations' and 'shall submit to the Committee, within six months, a written response'. 171 As noted in Section 6.5.2.1, these dual obligations are enunciated for the CESCR and the CRC as well. 172 Overall, the reasoning of the Spanish highest 166 Kanetake, 'UN Human Rights Treaty Monitoring Bodies before Domestic Courts', 205-6.…”

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“…Particularly in Europe, citizens, environmental activists and other political actors have used contestatory mechanisms to distance investment treaties from their domestic legal orders. Protests and claims of political parties and NGOs against the intrusion of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), CETA and the ISDS norm into the European legal order and the constitutional order of EU member states have been one manifestation of this practice of resistance 171. In this context, European institutions and courts, too, have become important actors.…”

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Entangled Legalities Beyond the State

2021

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Law is usually understood as an orderly, coherent system, but this volume shows that it is often better understood as an entangled web. Bringing together eminent contributors from law, political science, sociology, anthropology, history and political theory, it also suggests that entanglement has been characteristic of law for much of its history. The book shifts the focus to the ways in which actors create connections and distance between different legalities in domestic, transnational and international law. It examines a wide range of issue areas, from the relationship of state and indigenous orders to the regulation of global financial markets, from corporate social responsibility to struggles over human rights. The book uses these empirical insights to inform new theoretical approaches to law, and by placing the entanglements between norms from different origins at the centre of the study of law, it opens up new avenues for future legal research. This title is also available as Open Access.

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Contested international agreements, contested national politics: how the radical left and the radical right opposed TTIP in four European countries

Cited by 16 publications

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The European Citizens’ Initiative: Mobilization Strategies and Consequences

The European Citizens’ Initiative: Mobilization Strategies and Consequences

Varieties of EU trade politicisation in EU public debates

Entangled Legalities Beyond the State

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