French republicanism and the problem of normative densityComparative European Politics - - 2012
Christophe Bertossi
French republicanism is usually understood as the legacy of the French Revolution and the Third Republic, a unique example of colorblind assimilation and universal citizenship: the model for understanding immigrant integration in contemporary France. This article challenges this usual conception of the French model, and highlights the extent to which this approach is not successful in conceptualiz...... hiện toàn bộ
The sovereign debt crisis, the EU and welfare state reformComparative European Politics - Tập 13 - Trang 1-7 - 2014
Elke Heins, Caroline de la Porte
This Special Issue examines the EU’s monetary, fiscal, and social responses to the sovereign debt crisis and analyses how the European Union (EU) has affected welfare state reforms in the Member States most severely hit by the crisis. This editorial introduction presents the severe crisis context in which the EU altered existing tools and developed new ones in the governance of the EMU and of soci...... hiện toàn bộ
Going beyond the pandemic: ‘next generation eu’ and the politics of sub-regional coalitionsComparative European Politics - Tập 21 - Trang 64-81 - 2022
Sergio Fabbrini
The article aims to explain the 2020 approval of ‘Next Generation EU’, the program for helping the EU member states to go beyond the pandemic. The approval of NG-EU is interpreted in the context of a confrontation between three distinct interstate coalitions, coordinating a group of countries from the north (the Frugal coalition) against the core of continental countries (the Solidarity coalition)...... hiện toàn bộ
Conceptualizing the European Union Through Four Strategies of ComparisonComparative European Politics - Tập 4 Số 1 - Trang 94-123 - 2006
Fossum, John Erik
In this article, I examine the oft-cited claim to the effect that the EU is an entity sui generis, that is, a distinct and unique polity. This entails that it qua polity represents a departure from the nation-state model. Those debating the EU's uniqueness are not always clear on this. Neither is there agreement on the EU's uniqueness. Some talk of the EU as a departure from the nation-state; othe...... hiện toàn bộ