Introduction: Interpreting<scp>B</scp>ritish<scp>E</scp>uropean Policy

Bevir, Mark; Daddow, Oliver; Schnapper, Pauline

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“…With its focus on the use of history in the political discourses surrounding the UK’s place and roles in the world post-Brexit, this study and its findings engage closely with recent constructivist and interpretative approaches to the study of traditions in British foreign policy thought (Bevir et al, 2013, 2015; Bevir and Rhodes, 2006), as well as more narrowly focussed work on narratives that promote a deepening of historically rooted ties among countries in the so-called Anglosphere in contemporary political discourse in the UK (Bell and Vucetic, 2019; Kenny and Pearce, 2018; Murphy, 2018; Wellings, 2016). These engagements are elaborated upon further below.…”

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The Use of Historical Analogy in the 2017 Parliamentary Debates on the Future of Post-Brexit Commonwealth Trade

Eaton

Smith

2019

Political Studies Review

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This study examines how (and how well) politicians in the UK Parliament use their historical knowledge in debates about intra–Commonwealth trade following Brexit. Based on a rigorous analysis of 2 days of parliamentary debates in the House of Commons and House of Lords in early 2017, one of our conclusions is that UK parliamentarians used their historical knowledge in cross-domain (the practice of applying historical knowledge to a field of human activity that is very different from the original historical circumstances) ways. Our study thus develops our understanding of the role of analogical reasoning in the cognition of policymakers. On the other hand, although Conservative speakers did not refer to a wide range of economic or trade historical topics, they did use their historical knowledge from other domains in the promotion of deepening intra–Commonwealth ties as an alternative to the Europe-dominated focus of British international policies since 1973. In these ways, our study thus adds to our knowledge of how policymakers use historical knowledge to understand complex issues such as Brexit.

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The Use of Historical Analogy in the 2017 Parliamentary Debates on the Future of Post-Brexit Commonwealth Trade

Eaton

Smith

2019

Political Studies Review

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“…For studying norm reconfiguration in these two sectors, we propose an interpretivist methodology to understand better what meaning is performative in the EU policy dynamics (Bevir et al, 2015; Hajer & Wagenaar, 2009). Interpretivist approaches have informed research in both policy fields already.…”

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Norm collisions in European Union sectoral governance during the COVID‐19 pandemic: How the European Commission reconfigures norms in crises

Felder,

Stockmann

2023

Contemporary European Politics

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This article argues that the COVID‐19 pandemic has incited the collision of norms in sectoral European Union (EU) governance and provided an open juncture for the European Commission to engage in norm reconfiguration. Herewith, the paper expands the conceptual scope of EU‐related norm research, which by focussing on the diffusion of norms within and beyond the EU has largely omitted dynamic perspectives on norms so far. We combine International Relations norm research with EU governance literature to scrutinise the normative underpinnings of the immediate crisis response within Commission sectoral strategies and working programs. Empirically, the paper focuses on the higher education and transport sectors, which have been particularly impacted by the COVID‐19 crisis and targeted by the EU crisis response. The interpretative‐qualitative analysis uncovers COVID‐19‐related collisions within the ideational constellation of EU governance and shows that the European Commission has engaged in different reconfiguration practices, potentially altering the norm constellation in the investigated sectoral governance areas.

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“…Agents operate, are situated, against and within the backdrop of a wider tradition that influences their activity. The tradition is comprised of patterns of agentic behavior, language, and thought repeated over time, that have become “sticky” and prominent, exercising influence over the agents that also constitute them (Bevir et al, 2015). Situated agency articulates both the decentralized status and the capacity of the agent to affect their context, or environment.…”

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Policy change and the failure of pro‐European agency in the British Conservative Party: A post‐structuralist analysis

Wright

2022

Politics & Policy

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Under a post‐structuralist lens, the policy change through which Britain left the European Union in January 2020 is not only about the success of the Euroskeptic policy position at the 2016 referendum, but also about the failure of pro‐European agency in major British political parties like the Conservative and Unionist Party (CP). This article applies critical logics analysis—social, political, and fantasmatic—to deployments of pro‐European agency within the CP across three historical periods: (i) a pre‐Maastricht period, (ii) a Maastricht period, and (iii) a pre‐referendum period. I outline reasons for which key conservative agents failed to restore meaning to a policy routine for upholding British membership of European institutions. In doing so, I aim to demonstrate the capacity of post‐structuralist policy analysis to make insightful, rigorous, and useful contributions to political science and its important issue of policy change by way of comparison with more established models. Related Articles English, Patrick, Maria T. Grasso, Barbara Buraczynska, Sotirios Karampampas, and Luke Temple. 2016. “Convergence on Crisis? Comparing Labour and Conservative Party Framing of the Economic Crisis in Britain, 2008–14.” Politics & Policy 44(3): 577–603. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12160. Hazakis, Konstantinos J. 2015. “The Political Economy of Economic Adjustment Programs in the Eurozone: A Detailed Policy Analysis.” Politics & Policy 43(6): 822–54. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12141. Temple, Luke, Maria T. Grasso, Barbara Buraczynska, Sotirios Karampampas, and Patrick English. 2016. “Neoliberal Narrative in Times of Economic Crisis: A Political Claims Analysis of the U.K. Press, 2007–14.” Politics & Policy 44(3): 553–76. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12161.

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Introduction: InterpretingBritishEuropean Policy

Cited by 15 publications

References 61 publications

The Use of Historical Analogy in the 2017 Parliamentary Debates on the Future of Post-Brexit Commonwealth Trade

The Use of Historical Analogy in the 2017 Parliamentary Debates on the Future of Post-Brexit Commonwealth Trade

Norm collisions in European Union sectoral governance during the COVID‐19 pandemic: How the European Commission reconfigures norms in crises

Policy change and the failure of pro‐European agency in the British Conservative Party: A post‐structuralist analysis

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