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Negotiating the recovery and resilience facility: the emergence of coordinative conditionality
This paper analyses the design and negotiations of the National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs) which the EU member states were required to...
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Reinforcing or Conflicting? European Union Conditionality and Political Socialisation During the 2015–2017 Macedonian Political Crisis
The chapter analyses the interplay between the formal European Union (EU) conditionality based on the logics of consequences and mechanisms of...
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Beyond right and wrong: on the conditionality of dirty hands
Dirty Hands theorists disagree about how agents should resolve a high-cost moral dilemma, but their disagreement is partly because they tend to...
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Are ‘carrots’ better than ‘sticks’? New EU conditionality and social investment policies in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and Spain
This article asks whether the novel EU approach to member states’ economic adjustment strategies constitutes a ‘social investment turn’ by the...
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When the political leader is the narrator: the political and policy dimensions of narratives
There is increasing interest in the role of narratives in policy-making, as evidenced by the consolidation of the Narrative Policy Framework, a...
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A climate of optimism? EU policy-making, political science and the democratization of Central and Eastern Europe (2000–2015)
Democratic erosion in the EU’s Central and Eastern European (CEE) member states has confounded EU policy-makers. In this paper, we investigate the...
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How procedural and economic performance shape political trust: Affective and cognitive foundations of the performance-trust nexus
In which ways and under what conditions do the procedural and economic performance of political systems matter for citizens’ political trust? While...
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Rising Illiberalism in the European Periphery and the EU’s Application of Membership Conditionality for Democratic Governance
Illiberalism has recently risen both within the EU and in the European periphery following a global trend of democratic recession, which includes...
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Perceptions and Misperceptions of EU Conditionality in the Western Balkans: A Case of a “Capability-Expectations Gap”?
Over three decades have passed since the Western Balkan states disembarked from the socialist route, yet they still seem off-track on the European...
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Labour market deregulation, austerity measures, and social unrest: Greece in comparative perspective
Greece experienced near political implosion between 2010 and 2012 with large-scale demonstrations, strikes, riots, damage to public and private...
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Preferences for Rent Control: Between Political Geography and Political Economy
Following geographically concentrated changes in housing markets, real estate prices have skyrocketed in many cities and metropolitan areas across...
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Flexible democratic conditionality? The role of democracy and human rights adherence in NATO enlargement decisions
What explains NATO’s decision to admit new members even when they fall short of the organisational expectations of democracy and adherence to human...
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Linking crises: inter-crisis learning and the European Commission’s approach to the National Recovery and Resilience Plans
The article examines potential linkages between the management of the Eurozone crisis and the EU’s economic response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It...
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Voices from the past: economic and political vulnerabilities in the making of next generation EU
In this article, we show that Next Generation EU (NGEU) is mainly a response to the economic and political imbalances left over from the Eurozone...
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Limited political benefits for transit countries who manage migration
This article asks whether transit countries that participate in migration management efforts with their more powerful neighbors achieve significant...
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Conflict or choice? The differential effects of elite incivility and ideological polarization on political support
How does elite polarization impact citizens’ political support? While elite polarization generally has a negative connotation, we argue that it is...
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Turnover, Conditionality, and Europeanization in the Western Balkans
The EU accession process in the Balkans has gone from being a major force for political and economic change to being accused of promoting...
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Thomas Hobbes and the Conditionality of Toleration
It is widely accepted today that toleration is a defining characteristic of liberalism. But this assumption leads to a conceptual impasse, since...