Politicizing Europe in times of crisis

Hutter, Swen; Kriesi, Hanspeter

doi:10.1080/13501763.2019.1619801

Cited by 197 publications

(90 citation statements)

References 40 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…From this study, we can derive two key findings about the role of the politicization of a crisis of cultural identity on publics' narrations of Europe, and the impact this may have on European integration. Our findings are consistent with research into a variety of media sources from far right publics which suggests that in far right Euroscepticism, criticism of the 'establishment' is tightly connected with anti-migrant and nativist imaginaries (Mudde and Kaltwasser 2017;Pavan and Caiani 2017;Rydgren 2017;Hutter and Kriesi 2019;Klein and Muis 2019). Our analysis shows that the politicization of a crisis of cultural identity draws on events and processes to establish a sense of 'permanent crisis' as a consequence of both migrants and the establishment that allegedly abets them.…”

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 87%

A “Europe des Nations”: far right imaginative geographies and the politicization of cultural crisis on Twitter in Western Europe

Ganesh

Froio

2020

Journal of European Integration

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Contestation over European integration has been widely studied in the rhetoric of parties, leaders, and movements on the far right in a variety of media. Focusing on Twitter use by far right actors in Western Europe, we apply corpus-aided discourse analysis to explore how imaginative geographies are used to politicize Europe among their digital publics. We find that the idea of a crisis of cultural identity pervades imaginaries of Europe amongst far right digital publics. While Europe is presented as facing a crisis of cultural identity, we find that the far right articulates an aspirational imaginary of Europe, the 'Europe des Nations' that rejects liberal-democratic pluralism in the EU and the 'establishment'. We find that the contestation of Europe in far right digital publics relies on a crisis of cultural identity, representing a translation of Nouvelle Droite imaginaries of Europe into the social media space.

show abstract

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 87%

A “Europe des Nations”: far right imaginative geographies and the politicization of cultural crisis on Twitter in Western Europe

Ganesh

Froio

2020

Journal of European Integration

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…In this context, domestic political parties, especially the Eurosceptic extreme left and right, now explicitly profile on EU issues (Meijers, 2017;Meijers andRauh, 2016, van der Veer, Haverland, 2018). Anti-EU parties are argued to be the main drivers of the politization of European integration, whereas pro-European parties are trying to depoliticize European integration in many ways (Hutter and Kriesi, 2019).…”

Section: The Democratic Deficit and Eu's Politicizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a consequence, the EU is "far from its citizens", in the sense that citizens do not understand or identify with it and therefore feel that they have no power over European democratic politics (Tsakatika, 2007, 877). Second, the current stage of the EU integration project is characterized by politicization (Hooghe and Marks, 2009;Hutter et al, 2016;Hutter and Kriesi, 2019), which means the mobilization of public mass opinion with regard to the EU policy and institutions. I suggest looking at the EP election 2019 and its results through new analytical optics.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

EU Political System’s Resilience in the Age of Politicization: Lessons From the 2019 European Parliament Elections

Shein

2020

SSRN Journal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The democratic deficit problem in the EU polity is becoming more relevant in the context of the multifaceted crisis and the politicization of European integration. Taking into account that the category of resilience is actively used in the official EU discourse as a system's ability to reform and to counter threats, it is interesting, from a research point of view, to consider the use of resilience as an analytical optics to view the current EU internal political development. This article analyzes, in terms of resilience, the attempts of the EU's mainstream actors to improve the democratic elements of the EU's institutional structure during the European Parliament (EP) elections 2019 and their relationships with the agents of EU politicizationright-wing populist actors. The main findings suggest that (1) EU politicization exacerbates the problem of the democratic deficit and forces mainstream actors to seek strategies to increase the resilience of the whole system; (2) in order to preserve their own subjectness in the face of growing populism and the politicization of European integration, mainstream actors choose a strategy of depoliticization, which has decreased the EU resilience; (3) right-wing populist actors are agents of politicization, they play an ambivalent role in relation to EU resilience, being a resource and a threat. JEL Classification: Z.

show abstract

“…Crises disturb any society and Germany's more acutely than most (Anderson & Krishnarajan, 2019;Hertner & Miskimmon, 2015;Hutter & Kriesi, 2019b). The public has high expectations that politicians ensure competent management and rapid resolution of those crises that do occur.…”

Section: Crises and A Changing Political Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

Where is the middle? Considering the socio-political centre in Germany

Wood

2020

European Politics and Society

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Where is the political middle? This article revisits the concept in an era of populisms, radicals, extremists, niche parties, social movements, swinging voters, non-voters, and a shrinking 'mainstream'. The Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) is a pertinent case because of its history as an archetypal consensus democracy. 'Left' and 'Right' were parameters shaping the 'middle'. Plurality and fluctuation in the electorate challenges these coordinates and change in the party system surpassed previous 'transformations'. Three crises correlated with fragmentation and upheaval. A fourth correlates with a shift, at least temporarily, back to a traditional 'centre' party. The article draws on election and polling data, surveys, party programmes, media sources, and a multidisciplinary literature.

show abstract

Politicizing Europe in times of crisis

Cited by 197 publications

References 40 publications

A “Europe des Nations”: far right imaginative geographies and the politicization of cultural crisis on Twitter in Western Europe

A “Europe des Nations”: far right imaginative geographies and the politicization of cultural crisis on Twitter in Western Europe

EU Political System’s Resilience in the Age of Politicization: Lessons From the 2019 European Parliament Elections

Where is the middle? Considering the socio-political centre in Germany

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About