Coming to Terms with the European Refugee Crisis

Hanspeter Kriesi is part-time professor for comparative politics at the European University Institute in Florence, where he previously held the Stein-Rokkan Chair. Together with colleagues from the LSE and the University of Milano, he is currently working on the SOLID ERC Synergy project on the impact of the recent multiple crises on the resilience of the European Union. Argyrios Altiparmakis is a research fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and is currently working on the SOLID ERC Synergy project. Ábel Bojár is the research director of 21 Research Center, a Budapest-based political research organisation and opinion polling company. He was a previous member of the SOLID ERC Synergy project. Ioana-Elena Oană is a research fellow at the European University Institute and is currently working on the SOLID ERC Synergy project.

• Part I. The Refugee Crisis in the EU and its Member States: Our Approach in Context: 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical framework; 3. Design of the study; 4. Crisis situation – policy heritage, problem pressure and political pressure; 5. The variety of policy responses at the EU- and national level; Part II. Policy-Making: Actors and Conflict Structures: 6: Conflict lines in the member states; 7. Actors and conflicts at the EU level; 8. Government composition and domestic conflicts; 9. Framing the refugee crisis on the right; Part III. The Dynamics of Policy-Making: 10. The drivers of elite support in the refugee crisis; 11. Dynamics of politicization of policy-making between polity levels; 12. Dynamics of policy-making in the EU-Turkey agreement; Part IV. Outcomes and Conclusion: 13. Policy-specific conflict configurations on the demand side; 14. The electoral consequences of the refugee crisis; 15. Conclusion; References.

'Easily the most comprehensive empirical study of the politics of the European refugee crisis. This book's 'political process analysis' is exemplary in linking the domestic and EU levels of policymaking and offers a superb template for studying crisis politics. Essential reading to understand one of the EU's deepest and most intractable crises!' Frank Schimmelfennig, Professor of European Politics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland