This article discusses the notion of consociationalism as applied to the EU and assesses whether the institutional and procedural changes introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon (ToL) and by the management of the Euro and refugee crises still warrant considering the EU as a case of consociational democracy. Our contention is that the changes introduced by the ToL bore the promise to strengthen the consociational structural traits of the Union but that the further institutional and procedural changes engendered by the management of the Euro and refugee crises have made the behavioral dimension of consociationalism all the more necessary just as the accommodating orientation of the political elites had begun to evaporate. We support this argument by looking at empirical evidence which allows us to offer a set of propositions on the effects of the recent crises on the attitudes of the European elites towards the future of EU democracy.

Revisiting Transnational European Consociationalism: The European Union a Decade After Lisbon / Piattoni, Simona; Verzichelli, Luca. - In: SWISS POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW. - ISSN 1424-7755. - STAMPA. - 2019, 25:4(2019), pp. 498-518. [10.1111/spsr.12380]

Revisiting Transnational European Consociationalism: The European Union a Decade After Lisbon

Piattoni, Simona;
2019-01-01

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This article discusses the notion of consociationalism as applied to the EU and assesses whether the institutional and procedural changes introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon (ToL) and by the management of the Euro and refugee crises still warrant considering the EU as a case of consociational democracy. Our contention is that the changes introduced by the ToL bore the promise to strengthen the consociational structural traits of the Union but that the further institutional and procedural changes engendered by the management of the Euro and refugee crises have made the behavioral dimension of consociationalism all the more necessary just as the accommodating orientation of the political elites had begun to evaporate. We support this argument by looking at empirical evidence which allows us to offer a set of propositions on the effects of the recent crises on the attitudes of the European elites towards the future of EU democracy.
2019
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Piattoni, Simona; Verzichelli, Luca
Revisiting Transnational European Consociationalism: The European Union a Decade After Lisbon / Piattoni, Simona; Verzichelli, Luca. - In: SWISS POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW. - ISSN 1424-7755. - STAMPA. - 2019, 25:4(2019), pp. 498-518. [10.1111/spsr.12380]
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