This volume explores how and why EU-level actors respond to the various, sometime competing, 'bottom up' demands, and challenges the view that domestic contestation necessarily limits EU-level room for manoeuvre.
Edoardo Bressanelli is 'Montalcini' Assistant Professor in the Institute of Law, Politics and Development at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy, and Senior Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London, United Kingdom.
Christel Koop is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London, United Kingdom.
Christine Reh is Professor of European Politics and Dean of Graduate Programmes at the Hertie School in Berlin, Germany.
1. EU Actors under pressure: politicisation and depoliticisation as strategic responses
Edoardo Bressanelli, Christel Koop and Christine Reh
2. Politicisation management in the European Union
Frank Schimmelfennig
3. Contestation and responsiveness in EU Council deliberations
Sara B. Hobolt and Christopher Wratil
4. The Court of Justice in times of politicisation: 'law as a mask and shield' revisited
Michael Blauberger and Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen
5. Let's speak more? How the ECB responds to public contestation
Manuela Moschella, Luca Pinto and Nicola Martocchia Diodati
6. Responsive withdrawal? The politics of EU agenda-setting
Christine Reh, Edoardo Bressanelli and Christel Koop
7. Understanding the European Commission's use of politicisation in the negotiation of interinstitutional agreements: the role of consultations and issue framing
Adriana Bunea
8. Politicisation and economic governance design
Fabio Franchino and Camilla Mariotto
9. The European Union's authoritarian equilibrium
R. Daniel Kelemen