Guderjan, Marius, Miles, Lee, (2016), “The fusion approach – applications for understanding local government and European integration”, Journal of European Integration, 4 Μαΐου The article explores the theoretical capabilities of the fusion approach as a conceptual ‘kit’ to explain the ‘bigger picture’ of European integration from a local government perspective. Fusion addresses the rationales and methods facilitating the transfer of policy-making competences to the European level. It understands European integration as …Read More

Ferrera, Maurizio, (2016), “Impatient politics and social investment: the EU as ‘policy facilitator’”, Journal of European Public Policy, 19 Σεπτεμβρίου Reorienting the welfare state towards social investment (SI) constitutes a complex and multidimensional challenge of policy recalibration and raises daunting political problems. The temporal mismatch between SI reforms and their returns requires a degree of ‘political patience’ on the side of both current voters and incumbent politicians which is not …Read More

Kelemen, R. Daniel, Blauberger, Michael, (2016), “Introducing the debate: European Union safeguards against member states’ democratic backsliding”, Journal of European Public Policy, 9 Σεπτεμβρίου Today, the European Union (EU) is confronting a new democratic deficit at the national level. A number of EU member states have experienced an erosion of democracy and the rule of law in recent years, most severely in Hungary and Poland. Drawing on different strands of political science research, …Read More

Glynos, Jason, Voutyras, Savvas, (2016), “Ideology as blocked mourning: Greek national identity in times of economic crisis and austerity”, Journal of Political Ideologies, 15 Ιουλίου This article approaches the 2010–2014 economic crisis in Greece from the perspective of loss and mourning, critically exploring what questions and insights this provokes. We argue first that the rhetoric of mainstream political and media elites has been instrumental in framing responses to the Greek economic crisis in …Read More