A Postfunctionalist Theory of European Integration: From Permissive Consensus to Constraining Dissensus
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...Most of the scholarly literature, in fact, separates these two kinds of analyses, focusing attention either on the logics of institutional form and decision-making practices or on the ideational constructions and discursive interactions of identity and community.2 But both are necessary to assess…...
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...This analytic framework is more concerned with sentient (thinking and speaking) agents who convey ideas through discourse according to an interactive “logic of communication” in political institutions that embody meaning-based structures and constructs (Habermas 1996, 2001; Risse 2010; Schmidt…...
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...…European integration is not only, or even primarily, about trade and the single market, but also about a pooling of sovereignty that potentially erodes national self-determination and blurs boundaries between distinct national communities (Carey 2002; Hooghe and Marks 2005, 2009; McLaren 2006)....
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...…for 2014 from the CHES trend file. awakened in an era of constraining dissensus when attitudes over Europe are expressed in national elections, European elections and national referendum campaigns which escape mainstream party control (Grande and Hutter 2016: 40; Hooghe and Marks 2009; Treib 2014)....
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...Functional efficiency in the provision of public goods calls for multilevel governance, both below and above the central state (Hooghe and Marks 2009, 2015)....
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