Pub Date : 2023-09-26DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00313-7
Lucas Schramm
Abstract Differentiated integration, and the prospect thereof, is a prominent feature of European integration and policymaking. This article theorizes and demonstrates an explicit link between the threat of differentiated integration and the resolution of major European integration crises. Based on archival sources and secondary literature on differentiated integration, it shows how and why, in June 1984, the United Kingdom and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher agreed to increase the European Community’s (EC) financial resources, despite their years-long insistence on budgetary restraint and their formal right to veto such a decision. The article argues that the prospect of a ‘multi-speed’ Europe, represented by Franco-German ‘go-it-alone’ power, threatened to exclude recalcitrant member states. Lacking more promising alternatives to continued membership in a reformed EC, the British government consented to European financial objectives. It also joined the other national governments towards deeper political integration and, eventually, a European Union, despite its actual rejection of European federal ambitions. The article’s theoretical expectations and empirical findings on ways to overcome intergovernmental deadlock based on formal national veto rights have broader implications also for more recent European integration crises.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-26DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00311-9
Mónica Ferrín, Gema M. García-Albacete
{"title":"Disinterested or enraged? Understanding people’s political interest","authors":"Mónica Ferrín, Gema M. García-Albacete","doi":"10.1057/s41269-023-00311-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-00311-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46665740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00312-8
Cathrine Holst, Johan Christensen
{"title":"The epistemic quality of expert bodies: from normative-theoretical concept to empirical measurement","authors":"Cathrine Holst, Johan Christensen","doi":"10.1057/s41269-023-00312-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-00312-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44457696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00310-w
S. Otjes, Tom Louwerse
{"title":"The reinvention of consensus politics: governing without a legislative majority in the Netherlands 2010–2021","authors":"S. Otjes, Tom Louwerse","doi":"10.1057/s41269-023-00310-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-00310-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48966060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-03DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00308-4
Denny van der Vlist
{"title":"Correction: Parliament as a steppingstone? Patterns of post-parliamentary careers in The Netherlands between 1967 and 2017","authors":"Denny van der Vlist","doi":"10.1057/s41269-023-00308-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-00308-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44200389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-25DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00307-5
A. Dias, Luca Manucci, F. Raimundo
{"title":"Populism and transitional justice: talking the talk without walking the walk","authors":"A. Dias, Luca Manucci, F. Raimundo","doi":"10.1057/s41269-023-00307-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-00307-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47609127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-07DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00305-7
Javier Padilla, M. Trujillo
{"title":"Explaining Romanies’ high abstentionism: socialization effects and political interest","authors":"Javier Padilla, M. Trujillo","doi":"10.1057/s41269-023-00305-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-00305-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43704677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-28DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00304-8
Satu Helske, Juta Kawalerowicz
Abstract This article uses Swedish register data to study the labour market experiences of radical right-wing candidates standing in local elections. We look at different measures of economic insecurity (labour market participation trajectories, experience of unemployment in social networks and relative growth in the number of jobs for foreign-born workers vis-a-vis natives) and examine whether they are predictors of candidates running for the Sweden Democrats, the main radical right-wing party in Sweden, as opposed to running for mainstream political parties. We find that the labour market trajectories of such candidates are markedly different from those of mainstream party candidates. Those with turbulent or out-of-labour market trajectories are much more likely to run for the Sweden Democrats, as opposed to other parties. The same is also true for candidates embedded in social networks with higher levels of unemployment, while working in a high-skilled industry markedly lowers the probability of running for the Sweden Democrats, especially for male candidates with low educational attainment. We find mixed results for the ethnic threat hypothesis.
{"title":"Citizens’ candidates? Labour market experiences and radical right-wing candidates in the 2014 Swedish municipal elections","authors":"Satu Helske, Juta Kawalerowicz","doi":"10.1057/s41269-023-00304-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-00304-8","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article uses Swedish register data to study the labour market experiences of radical right-wing candidates standing in local elections. We look at different measures of economic insecurity (labour market participation trajectories, experience of unemployment in social networks and relative growth in the number of jobs for foreign-born workers vis-a-vis natives) and examine whether they are predictors of candidates running for the Sweden Democrats, the main radical right-wing party in Sweden, as opposed to running for mainstream political parties. We find that the labour market trajectories of such candidates are markedly different from those of mainstream party candidates. Those with turbulent or out-of-labour market trajectories are much more likely to run for the Sweden Democrats, as opposed to other parties. The same is also true for candidates embedded in social networks with higher levels of unemployment, while working in a high-skilled industry markedly lowers the probability of running for the Sweden Democrats, especially for male candidates with low educational attainment. We find mixed results for the ethnic threat hypothesis.","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":"2017 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135260476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00303-9
Eliška Klimentová, Petra Tomanová
{"title":"Independent agencies? Political vulnerability and affinity of their leaders","authors":"Eliška Klimentová, Petra Tomanová","doi":"10.1057/s41269-023-00303-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-00303-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47319104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-02DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00302-w
Joanne Yao, Andrew Delatolla
{"title":"The limits of modern revolutions: global constraints on domestic change","authors":"Joanne Yao, Andrew Delatolla","doi":"10.1057/s41269-023-00302-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-00302-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48139750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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