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Differentiated integration as symbolic politics? Constitutional differentiation and policy reintegration in core state powers

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  • Philipp Genschel

    (Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany; Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany)

  • Markus Jachtenfuchs

    (Jacques Delors Centre, 38962Hertie School, Berlin, Germany)

  • Marta Migliorati

    (10185Institute for European Studies, University of Malta, Msida, Malta)

Abstract

What are the policy consequences of constitutional differentiation in core state powers? We argue that the most important consequence is not necessarily the exclusion of the constitutional outs from the policies of the ins , but their reintegration by different means. The outs often have strong functional and political incentives to re-join the policies they opted out from, and the ins have good reasons to help them back in. We develop a theoretical framework that derives the incentives for reintegration from the costs of a policy exclusion. We use a novel dataset of reintegration opportunities to map trends and patterns of reintegration across policy fields and member states. We analyze selected cases of reintegration to probe the plausibility of our theoretical argument.

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  • Philipp Genschel & Markus Jachtenfuchs & Marta Migliorati, 2023. "Differentiated integration as symbolic politics? Constitutional differentiation and policy reintegration in core state powers," European Union Politics, , vol. 24(1), pages 81-101, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:eeupol:v:24:y:2023:i:1:p:81-101
    DOI: 10.1177/14651165221128291
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