A cleavage-based conceptualisation of politicised global integration
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1350-1763; 1466-4429
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Journal of European public policy, 2024, Vol. 31, No. 10, pp. 3372-3395
[European Governance and Politics Programme]; [GLOBAL]
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CARAMANI, Daniele, A cleavage-based conceptualisation of politicised global integration, Journal of European public policy, 2024, Vol. 31, No. 10, pp. 3372-3395, [European Governance and Politics Programme], [GLOBAL] - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/78012
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How can we conceptualise politicised integration at the global level? Functionalism and neo-functionalism are de-politicised, technocratic theories of integration dispensing with ideology and contestation, while post-functionalist approaches address politicisation but not supra-national integration. Drawing on comparative macro-historical theories, this article suggests a conceptualisation of politicised integration that extends exit–voice and political structuring models used at national and European levels to global integration. The replacement of territorial divisions with cleavages cutting across world regions – core–periphery and North–South divisions, civilisations and ‘multiple modernities’ – creates the conditions for cross-territorial dimensions of contestation, along which cross-regional membership groups link, coordinate and form bonds of solidarity. The de-territorialisation of global cleavages and the regional convergence it brings about, provide the social bases for mass politics rather than elitist policy integration. The conceptualisation of integration is political rather than technocratic, and one in which collective decision making is a matter of pluralist contestation rather than problem-solving expertise.
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Published online: 02 February 2024
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European Commission, 101097740
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Funded by the European Union (ERC, GLOBAL, project number ERC-2022-ADG 101097740