Staying on Course in Turbulent Times: National Political Elites and the Crisis of European Integration
10 diciembre 2016 by JRT
The article shows that the crises have af- fected national elites’ Europeanness in complex ways that are determined by the diverging impact they had on the investigated countries and by how elites perceive the efficiency of supranational integration to cope with them. Beyond national differences, the general evaluations of Europeanness remain quite sta- ble pro-European while preferences regarding the concrete organization of in- tegration are rather prone to change. Elites’ Europeanness primarily shifts in countries, in which strong Eurosceptic parties gained ground during the men- tioned crisis indicating that there is a challenge of responsiveness for the still overwhelmingly pro-European elites.
Artículo publicado con Lars Vogel en Historical Social Research, Vol. 41, No. 4, Special Issue: National Political Elites and the Crisis of European Integration, Country Studies 2007-2014 (2016), pp. 7-37