The Legitimacy of Regional Integration in Europe and the by Achim Hurrelmann, Steffen Schneider

By Achim Hurrelmann, Steffen Schneider

In keeping with state of the art learn, this edited quantity examines how voters and political elites understand the legitimacy of neighborhood integration in Europe and the Americas. It analyses public opinion and political discourse at the european, NAFTA and MERCOSUR, arguing that legitimation styles form the advance of nearby governance.

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By Achim Hurrelmann, Steffen Schneider

In keeping with state of the art learn, this edited quantity examines how voters and political elites understand the legitimacy of neighborhood integration in Europe and the Americas. It analyses public opinion and political discourse at the european, NAFTA and MERCOSUR, arguing that legitimation styles form the advance of nearby governance.

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The European Commission and the ECJ played this role by proposing pro-European legislative proposals and setting up principles of a European legal order which the governments of the member states had probably not intended in the beginning (Burley and Mattli 1993). Essentially, European nation states – now member states of an emerging polity – lost control over the process. 22 Pieter de Wilde The second school of thought, known as intergovernmentalism, argues that nation states have remained in control of the process of integration (Moravcsik 1993, 1998).

Some of these events are clearly national in scope, such as national elections The Politicization of European Integration 29 or referendums over EU accession, Eurozone membership or Treaty change. It is documented how elections and referendums in particular provide strong opportunities for the domestic politicization of Europe (Kriesi et al. 2007; Hobolt 2009; Statham and Trenz 2013a). We then find relatively short episodes of contention, but the nature of conflict and the arguments made during such periods have lasting effects on the public discourse about Europe in the member states in question (de Wilde et al.

The increasingly morose political climate in Hungary, featuring prominent infringements on the rule of law, human rights and democracy under pressure from Jobbik (Movement for a Better Hungary) and Magyar Gárda (Hungarian Guard Movement) is a case in point (Heller et al. 2013). Second, politicization does not amplify the citizens’ voice equally throughout the EU. Much of the increased democratic activity we associate with politicization unfolds in the West European member states, where democracy tends to function better than in the East or South.

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