Description du projet
Comprendre la hausse des réactions populaires hostiles envers les institutions internationales
Quand l’expérience de désintégration de masse d’un pays encourage-t-elle ou dissuade-t-elle les demandes de désintégration dans d’autres pays? Comment les autres membres d’une institution internationale réagissent-ils à la demande de désintégration de masse d’un membre? Le projet DISINTEGRATION, financé par le CER, va tenter de répondre à ces questions. Il examine la politique de masse de la désintégration, en se focalisant sur la manière dont les autres (les électeurs, les élites et les gouvernements des autres pays) répondent aux défis des institutions internationales appuyés par les électeurs. Le projet arrive au moment idoine compte tenu de la hausse de réactions populaires hostiles envers les institutions internationales, notamment le référendum de 2015 en Grèce sur le plan d’aide financière, le référendum de 2016 sur le Brexit et l’élection d’un président américain déterminé à retirer le soutien des États-Unis à une série de traités internationaux.
Objectif
In the past few years, there has been a growing popular backlash against international institutions. Examples include the 2015 Greek bailout referendum, the 2016 Brexit referendum, or the 2016 election of a US President seemingly determined to withdraw US support from various international treaties. The implications of these mass-based disintegration efforts reach far beyond the countries in which they originate. First, the disintegration process is shaped by how remaining member states respond to one member’s bid to unilaterally change or terminate the terms of an existing international agreement. Second, mass-based disintegration bids pose considerable political contagion risks by encouraging disintegrative tendencies in other countries. Unfortunately, our theoretical tools to understand such international disintegration processes are underdeveloped. DISINTEGRATION therefore conducts a broad, systematic, and comparative inquiry into the mass politics of disintegration that pays particular attention to reactions in the remaining member states. It explores when and how one country’s mass-based disintegration experience encourages or deters demands for disintegration in other countries, how these contagion effects are transmitted through domestic elites and domestic discourse, and how the remaining member states ultimately respond during disintegration negotiations. It undertakes large-scale multi-method data collection that exploits the research opportunities offered by two ongoing mass-based disintegration processes: the Brexit negotiations and an upcoming Swiss referendum aimed at terminating a Swiss-EU bilateral treaty. DISINTEGRATION’s main objective is to develop a much-needed theory of mass-based disintegration that helps us understand the transnational dynamics that unfold between governments, political elites and the mass public when one member state attempts to unilaterally withdraw from an international agreement on the basis of widespread popular support.
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ERC-COG - Consolidator GrantInstitution d’accueil
8006 Zurich
Suisse