Differentiated Politicisation of European Governance

Pieter de Wilde is Senior Researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Oslo. Pieter’s research focuses on politicisation in the EU and in wider globalisation contexts with a specific focus on media and parliamentary debates.Anna Leupold is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She holds a PhD in political science from the Freie Universität Berlin. Her research focuses on the politicisation of European governance and the meaning of the public sphere for social integration.Henning Schmidtke is a Senior Researcher at the University of Dresden, Germany. His research interests include the formation, design and behaviour of international organisations, their modes of governance and the contentious politics around them. His work has appeared in Leviathan, Review of International Studies and West European Politics.

• Introduction: the Differentiated Politicisation of European Governance 1. Beyond authority transfer: explaining the politicisation of Europe 2. The politicisation of European integration in domestic election campaigns 3. The differentiated politicisation of European tax governance . A structural approach to politicisation in the Euro crisis . The Eurozone crisis and citizen engagement in EU affairs 6. The party politics of the Euro crisis in the German Bundestag: frames, positions and salience 7. Assessing actually-existing trajectories of EU politicisation 8. Opening up Europe: next steps in politicisation research