In this report, Jan Pesl uses computer assisted quantitative text analysis to study shifting critiques of the EU’s legitimacy in the UK public sphere in the period immediately before Brexit.
ARENA Reports
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In this report, Joris Melman uses focus groups in France, Italy and the Netherlands to understand how citizens from different social groups perceived the Euro after the financial crisis.
In this report, Trym Nohr Fjørtoft asks under which conditions the delegation of power to unelected expert bodies is democratically legitimate.
In this report, Maisie Fitzmaurice examines suicide in British immigration detention centres from a critical suicidology perspective.
In this report, Live Johanna Steinsdatter Øverhaug examines the effect of EU sanctions on adoption and repeal of LGBT-free zones in Poland.
This report discusses three regional organisations and argues that they showcase three different versions of differentiated regionalism.
The concluding report synthesizes four years of EU3D research on differentiation, dominance and democracy.
This edited report introduces the EU3D database of more than 950 reform proposals and provides in-depth case studies of several key states.
This edited report addresses discursive trends, constructed meanings and policy analyses in relation to prevailing constitutional trajectories in the debate on the future of Europe.
In this report, Cecile Pelaudix introduces a database on differentiation in the EU, ASEAN and Mercorsur in relation to Chinese influence.
In this report, Tiziano Zgaga, Andrea Capati and Dora Hegedus, examine patterns of dominance surrounding the European Council, during three recent crisis.
In this report, Magdalena Góra, Elodie Thevenin and Katarzyna Zielińska (eds), together with contributing researchers, examine what political actors say about the future of the European Union.
In this report, Mona Marie Frank examines the social imaginaries and bio-political goals which informed the creation of Norwegian integration policies and the ways in which street-level bureaucrats implement these policies in day-to-day practices on the ground.
In this report, Raquel Ugarte Díez examines the European Public Prosecutor’s Office as a case of enhanced cooperation. Specifically, she asks why some member states choose to participate in the enhanced cooperation to establish the EPPO while others chose not to participate.
In this report Marte Christophersen Haugen investigates how the Norwegian and Swedish regional offices work at the European level asking whether EU membership and remoteness affect their work.
This report contains proceedings from the EU3D conference organised in Venice May 2022 which focused on multi-level governance during the Covid-19 pandemic.
In this report, Emilie Faarup Storvik examines the role of social media in the lobbying and advocacy strategies of the European Women’s Lobby and Young Feminist Europe.
In this report, Simon Dominic Zemp examines how Swiss news media have benchmarked Switzerland’s EU integration process against Brexit.
In this report, Radu-Mihai Triculescu examines the topic of asylum harmonisation from a legal and public administration perspective showing the opportunities of street-level bureaucrats to influence policy is more dependent on national administrative structures than on the EU’s legislative measures.
In this report, Emilija Tudzarovska Gjorgjievska investigates the causal linkages between the EU democratic legitimacy and the crises of representative democracies in the field of anticorruption and argues that national parliaments, political parties and elected members of parliaments can play essential roles in pursuing effective anti-corruption strategies.
In this report, Julien Bois examines the legitimacy of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and advocates the recoupling of normative and sociological legitimacy to fully understand the CJEU’s ‘right to rule’.
In this report, Jose Piquer Martinez examines how partisanship shapes policy choices and legitimising discourses through a comparative case study of the UK and Spain following the global financial crisis.
Designing the multi-actor, multi-sector, and cross-country survey on trust and distrust in European regulatory governance
In this report, Gil Thompson examines roles of pre-existing beliefs in socialisation, demonstrating that if European institutions wish to increase the effectiveness of socialisation outcomes, they ought to deeply understand who the experts they deploy are and what they believe.
In this report, Elena Escalante Block examines when and how state aid cases become politicised or depoliticised in the EU's system of Multilevel Governance. More specifically, it demonstrates how state-aid cases can serve as ‘trigger moments’ in the politicisation/depoliticisation and legitimation/delegitimation of the European Union.