Radicalisation and discursive accommodation: responses to rising Euroscepticism in the European Parliament

Wunsch, Natasha; Bélanger, Marie-Ève

doi:10.1080/01402382.2023.2202031

West European Politics

2023

DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2023.2202031

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Radicalisation and discursive accommodation: responses to rising Euroscepticism in the European Parliament

Natasha Wunsch

Marie-Ève Bélanger

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How Does Eurosceptic Party Consolidation Transform Party Competition Over European Issues?

Braun,

Carteny

2024

Polit Vierteljahresschr

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The European Union (EU)—the world’s most advanced and exemplary case of regional integration—is adapting to an era when internal criticisms are becoming more influential than ever before in the history of European integration. An entirely new party family of Eurosceptic parties has emerged and consolidated over the last decade. Given that one of their main aims is to challenge and critique the EU, Eurosceptic parties have a particular interest in European issues—the European polity as well as major European policies. Against this backdrop, the paper investigates whether and how the rise and consolidation of Eurosceptic parties of the left and right has affected party competition over European polity and policy issues. Empirically, we use information from the Euromanifesto data set covering the past 40 years (1979–2019) relating to elections to the European Parliament. Our paper’s findings suggest that the upsurge and consolidation of Eurosceptic parties of the left and right has an important effect on party competition over European issues: Eurosceptic party success affects mainstream leftist parties’ issue salience and position when it comes to the EU polity. Moreover, higher levels of support for far-right Eurosceptic parties have an impact on the position of rightist mainstream parties on EU cultural policy issues, whereas leftist mainstream parties appear mostly unresponsive to the Eurosceptic parties’ success when it comes to EU economic policy issues. These findings give us a clearer insight on how exactly Eurosceptic parties are transforming mainstream party competition.

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How Does Eurosceptic Party Consolidation Transform Party Competition Over European Issues?

Braun,

Carteny

2024

Polit Vierteljahresschr

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Supranational responses to democratic backsliding: norm contestation and discursive polarisation in the European Parliament

Wunsch,

Chiru

2024

Journal of European Public Policy

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Where Have All the ‘Exiters’ Gone? Contextualising the Concept of Hard Euroscepticism

Havlík,

Hloušek

2024

J of Common Market Studies

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The article analyses the impact of Brexit on hard Eurosceptic discourses in the Visegrád Group countries from 2015 to 2023. As the negative implications of Brexit for the UK economy became clear, many hard Eurosceptics softened their rhetoric, using the referendum as a proxy for a ‘hard’ exit. Whilst the classical soft–hard typology remains dominant amongst scholars in the study of Euroscepticism, the case of Brexit shows that long‐term principled opposition to the European Union (EU) can hide behind equivocal rhetoric. The article suggests studying the changing tactics of Eurosceptics by matching current EU and domestic contexts together with the long‐term points of departure of hard Eurosceptics.

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Radicalisation and discursive accommodation: responses to rising Euroscepticism in the European Parliament

Cited by 3 publications

References 41 publications

How Does Eurosceptic Party Consolidation Transform Party Competition Over European Issues?

How Does Eurosceptic Party Consolidation Transform Party Competition Over European Issues?

Supranational responses to democratic backsliding: norm contestation and discursive polarisation in the European Parliament

Where Have All the ‘Exiters’ Gone? Contextualising the Concept of Hard Euroscepticism

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