Bellamy, Richard;
Kröger, Sandra;
Lorimer, Marta;
(2023)
Party Views on Democratic Backsliding and Differentiated Integration.
East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures
, 37
(2)
563 -583.
10.1177/08883254221096168.
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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 thirty-five interviews and a survey of forty-two 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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Party Views on Democratic Backsliding and Differentiated Integration |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/08883254221096168 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/08883254221096168 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2022 The Authors. 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). |
| Keywords: | Differentiated integration; democratic backsliding; European Union; political parties; democracy |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10148613 |
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