Party views on democratic backsliding and differentiated integration
dc.contributor.author | Bellamy, R | |
dc.contributor.author | Kröger, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Lorimer, M | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-04-19T14:27:22Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-05-16 | |
dc.date.updated | 2022-04-19T11:37:57Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Both political parties and differentiated integration (DI) play an ambivalent role in regard to democratic backsliding. Parties’ positioning towards democratic backsliding has not always been straightforward, and DI has been seen as facilitating it. We analyse whether party actors view democratic backsliding as a problematic issue for the EU, if they think DI facilitates it, and how they consider the EU should respond to it. Drawing on 35 interviews and a survey of 42 party actors in seven member states, we show that many do view backsliding as problematic. Moreover, around half worried that DI could facilitate backsliding, though others did not link the two. Finally, almost all considered it legitimate for the EU to address democratic backsliding. Although centre-of-left actors are most likely to worry about democratic backsliding and favour EU intervention, actors across the political spectrum are sceptical about accepting DI in matters pertaining to Article 2. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | European Commission | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 16 May 2022 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/08883254221096168 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 822304 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/129403 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-6069-1064 (Kroger, Sandra) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications / American Council of Learned Societies / American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2022 Sage Publications. Open access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). | |
dc.subject | Democratic Backsliding | en_GB |
dc.subject | European Union | en_GB |
dc.subject | Differentiated Integration | en_GB |
dc.subject | Party actors | en_GB |
dc.title | Party views on democratic backsliding and differentiated integration | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2022-04-19T14:27:22Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0888-3254 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from SAGE Publications via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1533-8371 | |
dc.identifier.journal | East European Politics and Societies | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2022-04-01 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2022-04-01 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2022-04-19T11:37:59Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2022-06-17T15:25:19Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
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