Towards Explaining Varying Degrees of Politicization of EU Trade Agreement Negotiations
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Resumo: | Over the last decade, European Union (EU) trade agreement negotiations in the form of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada have been strongly contested. By contrast, many other EU trade negotiations have sailed on with far less politicization, or barely any at all. In this contribution, we assess a series of plausible explanation for these very varying degrees of politicization across EU trade agreement negotiations—conceived of as the combination of polarization of opinions, salience given to them in public debate, and the expansion of the number of societal actors involved therein. Through a review of existing explanations, we show how each of these explanations faces a set of challenges. In the third section, we argue it is useful to conceive of these existing explanations as structural background conditions enabling agency on the part of interest group and civil society organizations. We therefore close by sketching how literature on the relationship between interest group mobilization and public opinion could inform further comparative research on trade policy negotiations, and on politicization of EU policy making in general. |
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Towards Explaining Varying Degrees of Politicization of EU Trade Agreement NegotiationsEuropean Union; interest groups; mobilization; negotiations; politicization; public opinion; trade policyOver the last decade, European Union (EU) trade agreement negotiations in the form of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada have been strongly contested. By contrast, many other EU trade negotiations have sailed on with far less politicization, or barely any at all. In this contribution, we assess a series of plausible explanation for these very varying degrees of politicization across EU trade agreement negotiations—conceived of as the combination of polarization of opinions, salience given to them in public debate, and the expansion of the number of societal actors involved therein. Through a review of existing explanations, we show how each of these explanations faces a set of challenges. In the third section, we argue it is useful to conceive of these existing explanations as structural background conditions enabling agency on the part of interest group and civil society organizations. We therefore close by sketching how literature on the relationship between interest group mobilization and public opinion could inform further comparative research on trade policy negotiations, and on politicization of EU policy making in general.Cogitatio2020-03-31info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i1.2686oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2686Politics and Governance; Vol 8, No 1 (2020): Politicization of EU Trade Policy across Time and Space; 243-2532183-2463reponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAPenghttps://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/2686https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i1.2686https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/2686/2686Copyright (c) 2020 Dirk De Bièvre, Arlo Polettihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessDe Bièvre, DirkPoletti, Arlo2022-12-22T15:16:48Zoai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2686Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T16:22:30.429099Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Towards Explaining Varying Degrees of Politicization of EU Trade Agreement Negotiations |
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Towards Explaining Varying Degrees of Politicization of EU Trade Agreement Negotiations |
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Towards Explaining Varying Degrees of Politicization of EU Trade Agreement Negotiations De Bièvre, Dirk European Union; interest groups; mobilization; negotiations; politicization; public opinion; trade policy |
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Towards Explaining Varying Degrees of Politicization of EU Trade Agreement Negotiations |
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Towards Explaining Varying Degrees of Politicization of EU Trade Agreement Negotiations |
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Towards Explaining Varying Degrees of Politicization of EU Trade Agreement Negotiations |
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Towards Explaining Varying Degrees of Politicization of EU Trade Agreement Negotiations |
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Towards Explaining Varying Degrees of Politicization of EU Trade Agreement Negotiations |
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De Bièvre, Dirk |
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De Bièvre, Dirk Poletti, Arlo |
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De Bièvre, Dirk Poletti, Arlo |
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European Union; interest groups; mobilization; negotiations; politicization; public opinion; trade policy |
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European Union; interest groups; mobilization; negotiations; politicization; public opinion; trade policy |
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Over the last decade, European Union (EU) trade agreement negotiations in the form of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada have been strongly contested. By contrast, many other EU trade negotiations have sailed on with far less politicization, or barely any at all. In this contribution, we assess a series of plausible explanation for these very varying degrees of politicization across EU trade agreement negotiations—conceived of as the combination of polarization of opinions, salience given to them in public debate, and the expansion of the number of societal actors involved therein. Through a review of existing explanations, we show how each of these explanations faces a set of challenges. In the third section, we argue it is useful to conceive of these existing explanations as structural background conditions enabling agency on the part of interest group and civil society organizations. We therefore close by sketching how literature on the relationship between interest group mobilization and public opinion could inform further comparative research on trade policy negotiations, and on politicization of EU policy making in general. |
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