European integration by daylight

The Struggle for EU Legitimacy

“…Many calls for a recognition or even active encouragement of a politicisation of EU politics take a 'scientific perspective' based on predictions of what would happen otherwise (White 2010c:56, see e.g. Tsakatika 2007, for instance of a 'rise in anti-EU populism across the memberstates' (Risse 2010:8).…”

“…13 Conceptually, politicisation has been set against the 'politics of expertise' -which it counterbalances -and against the latter's different modes, such as technocracy, epistemic communities, and bureaucracy (Radaelli 1999, see also Lindblom 1965, Glencross 2009). These modes are particularly pronounced in the EU political system, where 'non-elected institutions heavily inform policymaking [and] the practices of government take on a technocratic character that tends to conceal the value choices embedded in decision-making' (White 2010c:56, see Tsakatika 2007. Politicisation could bring such value choices, clashes of interests, and rival interpretations of the public good and competing stances on the objectives of policymaking out into the open, and ensure more inclusive representation of voices underrepresented in a de-politicised environment.…”

“…Risse 2010:6, see Eder 2004, Zimmermann andFavell 2011:507). Moreover, politicisation is postulated to promote a sense of belonging to the political community in the framework of which political contestation does, or might, take place, and to its other potential participations (Checkel and Katzenstein 2009, White 2010c:69, Risse 2010. In Tully's words, [w]hat holds the diverse members [of a community] together and generates bonds of belonging to the community as a whole across ongoing differences and disagreements is that the prevailing institutions, procedures and norms of integration are always open to free and democratic negotiation and experimentation with alternatives by those subject to them' (Tully 2007:75).…”

“…My aim is to look beyond decision-making processes, not to the Europeans' everyday life, but to how the substance, form, and existence of EU action are publicly represented, interpreted and made sense of -in the discourses of those involved in it and through the reception and contestation of these discourses in some member-state public spheres. This book offers a study of patterns and changes in the 'ideational conditions' (White 2010c:63) that shape the conditions for politicisation processes and political adversarialism. It investigates ways of representing the social and political world that come to make sense to people, and of how these discourses relate to each other, evolve, and change in their relative appeal.…”

La United Kingdom Stem Cell Bank

“…Cela présuppose l'absence d'orientations préconçues des processus de différenciation et d'intégration institutionnelles (Saurugger, 2010) 6 . En d'autres termes, ce présent article est un plaidoyer visant à porter une attention plus soutenue au déploiement concret des activités institutionnelles dans leurs ramifications les plus lointaines (White, 2010) 7 , sans supposer de frontières aux collectifs que l'on définit ou de projets préconçus aux acteurs que l'on étudie (Schemeil, 2009). …”