Two Models for the Politicization of European Integration: Postfunctionalism, Anti-Establishment Politics, and the Italian Case with Erik Jones, Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute

Date: 
5 Avril, 2022 - 12:30 - 14:30

CEE General Seminar

Sciences Po, Salle du Conseil, 13 rue de l'Université, 75007 Paris and via Zoom, compulsory registration

This paper uses Italy’s relationship with the European Union over the past three decades to explore the difference between two models for the politicization of European integration. The paper draws the causal mechanism for one model from the postfunctionalist argument made by Hooghe and Marks (2009, 2018). It draws the causal mechanism for the other (anti-establishment) model from the writings of Stefano Bartolini (2005) and Peter Mair (2007, 2013). Although the two models can exist simultaneously, it is possible to test for predominance using the strategy for ‘fair causal comparison’ set out by Miller (1988). The evidence suggests that both mechanisms are present in Italy, but the anti-establishment mechanism is more important. This finding contributes both to our theoretical understanding of the politicization of Europe and to our empirical understanding of the Italian case.

Speaker

JonesErik Jones is Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute. He is also Professor of European Studies and International Political Economy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) – on extended leave. Professor Jones is author of The Politics of Economic and Monetary Union (2002), Economic Adjustment and Political Transformation in Small States (2008), Weary Policeman: American Power in an Age of Austerity (2012, with Dana H. Allin), and The Year the European Crisis Ended (2014). He is editor or co-editor of books and special issues of journals on topics related to European politics and political economy including The Oxford Handbook of the European Union (2012) and The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics (2015).

Discussion

Jens Carstens, Sciences Po, CEE

Olivier Rozenberg, Sciences Po, CEE

Chair

Matthias Thiemann, Sciences Po, CEE

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