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Kassim, Hussein 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7603-8377, Saurugger, Sabine and Puetter, Uwe
(2020)
The study of national preference formation in times of the Euro crisis and beyond.
Political Studies Review, 18 (4).
pp. 463-474.
ISSN 1478-9299
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Abstract
The aim of its introduction is threefold: We start from a conceptual clarification of preference formation, defining it provisionally as a political process ‘by which social actors decide what they want and what to pursue’. After an analysis of different conceptual and theoretical approaches, the introduction offers a critique of liberal intergovernmentalism, one of the major explanatory frameworks of preference formation in European Union studies. This critique centres on the context in which national preference formation took place during the European Monetary Union crisis. This special issue argues that the conceptualisation of preference formation as state-based, unidirectional and unchanged by the regime is deeply problematic. Preference formation is typically messy and non-linear and rarely closed to the possibility that both preferences and positions may change, sometimes radically, it is even more complex, context-sensitive, and open to a wide range of influences in a multi-level system such as the European Union. In other words, the traditional understanding of preference formation as a purely domestic process of interest aggregation and competition require revision given the multiple factors that shape preferences in general and in the interdependent policy-making of the European Union in particular.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | euro crisis,euro reform,preference formation,preferences,sociology and political science,political science and international relations ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3312 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Policy & Politics Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jan 2020 04:01 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Jul 2023 09:53 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/73478 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1478929919873262 |
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