Solidarity in Europe: from crisis to policy?

Ciornei, Irina; Ross, Malcolm

doi:10.1057/s41269-021-00195-7

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“…Receivers need to be 'grateful' and commit to the perceived 'northern' fiscal standards in exchange for the assistance, a feature known as 'reciprocity' in the deservingness literature (Meuleman et al, 2020;Van Oorschot, 2000). This idea ties into the wider literature on solidarity that also emphasizes the idea of reciprocity, and that reciprocity can evolve into conditionality, making the sharing of resources dependent upon compliance with certain requirements (Banting and Kymlicka, 2017;Ciornei and Ross, 2021). For instance, fiscal transfers might come with demands for structural reforms (see Lengfeld and Kley, 2021).…”

Section: Crisis-specific Explanationsmentioning

confidence: 89%

“…The determinants of public support for the EU and its policies can be roughly divided into two categories: on one hand, the utilitarian factors focusing on the material interests of individual citizens or of their societies; on the other hand, non-material, ideational and cultural factors such as political ideology, identity and political values and ‘cue taking’. Scholars have defined ‘cue taking’ as following the lead of the elite with which one sympathizes ( De Vries, 2020 ; Hobolt and de Vries, 2016 ; Loveless and Rohrschneider, 2011 ). These competing explanations have been identified in research that has largely focused on support for the EU in general, for instance, investigating whether citizens believe that EU membership is a good idea.…”

Section: Determinants Of Public Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The decision for large-scale fiscal transfers to cope with COVID-19 and the unprecedented step to accrue significant debt met with a heavily politicized environment. The ‘politicization’ of European integration ( De Wilde et al, 2016 ; van der Veer and Haverland, 2019 ) and the associated rise of Eurosceptic public opinion ( Hobolt and de Vries, 2016 ) and Eurosceptic political parties ( Braun et al, 2019 ; de Vries and Hobolt, 2020) have replaced the ‘permissive consensus’ (Lindberg and Scheingold, 1970: 62) with a ‘constraining dissensus’ ( Hooghe and Marks, 2009 : 22). Public opinion matters significantly in the calculation of political actors and due to polarization has become significant for decision making.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Is this crisis different? Attitudes towards EU fiscal transfers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic

Haverland

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2022

European Union Politics

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To mitigate the enormous and asymmetric economic implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, the EU has adopted an unprecedented €750 billion fiscal transfer programme, financed by joint member state liabilities. The highly contested decision pitted ‘frugal’ northern member states against ‘profligate’ southern member states. However, do citizens from northern countries view EU transfers as unfavourably as their governmental positions suggest? This article focuses on the crucial case of the Netherlands, whose government has become the assertive leader of the ‘frugal’ coalition. We test COVID-19 specific explanations based on a large-scale survey conducted at the height of the pandemic. Our analysis suggests that citizens who experience the non-material health and social effects of the pandemic more directly are more supportive of fiscal transfers than those to whom the pandemic is more abstract, whereas those who experience negative financial effects and those who believe that COVID-19 is a conspiracy are less supportive.

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Section: Crisis-specific Explanationsmentioning

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Is this crisis different? Attitudes towards EU fiscal transfers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic

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2022

European Union Politics

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“…Throughout the history, the concept of solidarity has been institutionalised with the intent to prevent future risks and adversities (e.g., social marginalisation, unemployment, illness, and even natural disasters). However, evidence from recent history shows the opposite effects [ 12 ]—a decrease in solidarity and, at the same time, populist, nationalist, and anti-establishment political parties rose in several European countries. These factors brought complicated and perplexing dynamics to the original European integration idea, but not only that—they also added more complexity to the cross-country economic and political relations [ 13 ].…”

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Attitudes towards Future Unemployment and European Cooperation to Reduce Unemployment among 8th Graders in EU/European Countries

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Mirazchiyski

2022

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The focus of this article is on the attitudes among 8th graders in European countries on future unemployment and attitudes towards cooperation among European countries to guarantee high levels of employment and strengthen their economies. This article uses both qualitative and quantitative approaches. For the qualitative approach, a systematic literature review was performed using four databases, starting from 16,873 search results for the 2016–2021 period before systematically limiting them to identify possible predictors used in quantitative analyses. The quantitative part uses secondary analyses of data obtained from 52,788 upper secondary students from 14 EU and one EU associated country from the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) 2016, which is the last available cycle with publicly available data since 2018. The techniques used to analyse the data are descriptive statistics, linear and binary logistic regression, Pearson’s and Spearman’s correlation coefficients, and Principal Component Analysis. This article also considers the theoretical base of the sustainable development definition—it explores youths’ present perceptions of the future in the economic and financial domains.

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“…Solidarity is one of the core concepts in social and political theory and has received much scholarly attention in recent years (Ciornei & Ross, 2021; Gerhards et al, 2020; Koos, 2019; Lahusen, 2020a). The multiple challenges and crises in the last decade have revitalized the debate on the nature and conditions of solidarity.…”

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Claiming solidarity: A multilevel discursive reconstruction of solidarity

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Schammann

Kahle

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European Journal of Social Theory

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Solidarity is one of the central concepts in social theory and has gained much attention due to the multiple challenges that the EU has been facing the last decade and due to the most recent COVID-19 pandemic. Although the debate on the nature and conditions of solidarity has been revitalized, there remains a large variety in how to conceptualize solidarity. In contrast to other approaches, we do not conceive solidarity as normative concept, but as descriptive–analytical one. Therefore, we provide a theory-based definition that is prone to capture the empirical dimensions of solidarity. Accounting for the dynamic and interactive character of solidarity as subject to permanent societal and political renegotiation, we conceptualize solidarity from a discourse perspective and follow a multilevel design breaking down the understandings of solidarity on different levels. This approach contributes to the research of solidarity that is interested to capturing the ‘real world’ dimensions of solidarity.

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Solidarity in Europe: from crisis to policy?

Cited by 11 publications

References 22 publications

Is this crisis different? Attitudes towards EU fiscal transfers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic

Is this crisis different? Attitudes towards EU fiscal transfers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic

Attitudes towards Future Unemployment and European Cooperation to Reduce Unemployment among 8th Graders in EU/European Countries

Claiming solidarity: A multilevel discursive reconstruction of solidarity

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