Comparing politicisation in core state powers

Abstract

The increase of populist and Eurosceptic parties in member states have led to a growing contestation of core policies and values of the European Union. This translates into more salience and polarisation in debates surrounding policy outputs but also into higher contestation surrounding the processes of policy-making. In this panel, we aim to compare processes of politicisation across policy areas that affect ‘core state powers’, namely migration, rule of law and foreign policy. Comparing these policy areas is crucial to better understand these processes of politicisation: how does domestic politicisation affect the positions and behaviour of member states’ governments on the EU level? How do EU institutions react to growing politicisation on the EU and domestic levels? What happens when populist and Eurosceptic governments sit in the negotiation table? How do mainstream governments deal with them? Do we see variation across core state powers? This panel aims thus to better understand these dynamics and discuss also the methods that allow us to trace and compare politicisation across policy areas and cases.

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