Inside the Europarty: research at the junction of party politics and European integration

Switek, Niko

doi:10.1080/07036337.2016.1195196

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“…Since 2014, the Spitzenkandidaten system has constituted a new opportunity for Europarties to continue their development towards 'normal' and institutionalized party organizations (Bressanelli, 2014). This observation adds to the debate on whether Europarties can be analyzed using theories and approaches tailored to national political parties (Switek, 2016). Whereas some scholars have expressed reservations about the comparability of EU institutions more generally, a growing number of studies apply frameworks from national party research to European political parties (Bressanelli 2014;Külahci and Lightfoot 2014).…”

Section: An Analytical Framework For Party Reform At the Eu Levelmentioning

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Explaining the reform of the Europarties’ selection procedures for Spitzenkandidaten

Wolfs

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Hecke

2021

Journal of European Integration

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This article examines how Europarties selected lead candidates (Spitzenkandidaten) for the 2019 European Parliament elections, and investigates why these parties changed or did not change their procedural processes compared with the previous 2014 election. As a set of external and internal factors incentivized Europarties to democratize their selections, the main hypothesis expects more inclusive procedures in 2019. The empirical analysis examines seven parties -EPP, PES, ALDE, EGP, PEL, ACRE and EFA -based on sixteen interviews with high-ranking party officials, internal party documents, and party websites. By leveraging analytical frameworks for the analysis of national parties we first provide a detailed account of these Europarties' selection procedures and subsequently present crucial factors explaining reforms (or lack thereof). The results show that mainly intra-party dissent hampered large democratic reforms. Our findings contribute to scholarly understanding of intraparty decision-making in Europarties, and have important consequences for the role of Europarties in future democratizing efforts of the EU.

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Section: An Analytical Framework For Party Reform At the Eu Levelmentioning

confidence: 95%

Explaining the reform of the Europarties’ selection procedures for Spitzenkandidaten

Wolfs

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Hecke

2021

Journal of European Integration

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“…Extant research has engaged with how supranational party politics developed (Switek 2016, Raunio 2021Hix and Lord 1997;Bressanelli 2014;Bardi 1994;), followed by a focus on political groups (Kreppel 2002;Hix, Noury and Roland 2007;Ahrens, Elomäki and Kantola 2022). Lately, the cooperation of populist and right-wing parties in political groups received increasing scholarly attention (McDonnell and Werner 2019;Gómez-Reino 2018;Brack 2018), including constitutionalising Europarties in light of EU regulations (Norman and Wolfs 2021;Morijn 2019).…”

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The relationships between Europarties and European political groups: changing formal and informal rules and the Spitzenkandidatur

Ahrens¹,

Miller²

2023

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The condition of EU democracy is hotly debated and European Parliament’s political groups and Europarties play an important role in continuing power struggles between European Union institutions. To harness the increased power of both the European Parliament and European citizens, the formal and informal relationships between the political groups and Europarties matter, with the Spitzenkandidatur process as a crucial aspect. Using a dataset of 135 semi-structured interviews, this article looks beneath the formal rules that structure European Parliament’s political groups and Europarties. Exploring how MEPs construct these relationships, it discusses leadership, institutionalisation and stances toward European integration as core elements of the relationship between Europarties and political groups in the European Parliament.

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“…It is interesting to note, though, that researchers could hardly find a good number of works that had studied the readability of manifestos in particular. Perhaps this is a testament to the claims that apart from research into how party claims in manifestos translate into programmes and policies post-election, there has been little work on all other aspects of manifestos (Dolezal et al, 2012;Eder et al, 2017;Switek, 2016).…”

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Inside the Europarty: research at the junction of party politics and European integration

Cited by 7 publications

References 5 publications

Explaining the reform of the Europarties’ selection procedures for Spitzenkandidaten

Explaining the reform of the Europarties’ selection procedures for Spitzenkandidaten

The relationships between Europarties and European political groups: changing formal and informal rules and the Spitzenkandidatur

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