Take On Me: Institutional Rejection in Europe

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

These papers take different perspectives to explore a similar idea: rejection of status quo institutions. What was once seemingly inevitable--democracy, EU deepening-- is now not only highly contested but highly politicized. Some of the papers feature internal sources of resistance (inefficiencies, protectionism) while others focus on strategies of ideologically-motivated external actors, from political parties to the media.

Support for European institutions, including policy harmonization, and national democratic consolidation have shifted from status quo matters-of-fact to deeply contested and highly politicized concepts. This panel examines how some institutions and actors have resisted these trends.

Sub Unit

• Division 15: European Politics and Society

Individual Presentations

• Conceptual Ambiguity and Autocracy: How Backsliding Regimes Portray Backsliding - Thomas Winzen, Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf

• Explaining Mechanisms behind the EU’s Inefficiency during the Rule of Law Crisis - Gizem Kaftan, Boston University

• The Race Away from Brussels and Challenges to EU Cohesion - Keith A Preble, Miami University

• Beholding the Backsliders: European Media Coverage of Hungary and Poland - A. Maurits van der Veen, College of William & Mary

Chair

• Keith A Preble Miami University

Discussant

• R. Daniel Kelemen Georgetown University