European Integration

Thomas Winzen
Oct 20, 2023

What explains institutional change in the EU? Can and should the EU be reformed to engage effectively and legitimately with the interests and capacities of the member states, neighbouring countries, and the multiple policy challenges Europe faces?

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Thomas Winzen
Thomas Winzen
Political Scientist

Political scientist interested in institutions and legitimate governance

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How backsliding governments keep the European Union hospitable for autocracy: Evidence from intergovernmental negotiations
The European Union (EU) is a democratic organization but faces severe cases of democratic backsliding. The literature deems the EU a …
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National Differentiation Experience and Citizen Support for Differentiated Integration
This article examines the determinants of public opinion on differentiated integration (DI) in the European Union (EU). Specifically, …
Thomas Winzen, Frank Schimmelfennig
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Cascading opt-outs? The effect of the Euro and migration crises on differentiated integration in the European Union
Frank Schimmelfennig, Thomas Winzen
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Democratic Backsliding and Decision-Making in the European Union: Eurosceptic Contestation?
Do governments engaged in democratic backsliding adopt Eurosceptic positions in decision-making in the European Union (EU)? This study …
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Ever Looser Union? Differentiated European Integration
Differentiated integration has become a durable feature of the European Union and is a major alternative for its future development and …
Frank Schimmelfennig, Thomas Winzen
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Ever Looser Union? Differentiated European Integration
Government Euroscepticism and differentiated integration
It is common to consider mass politics and Eurosceptic politicization as ‘post-functionalist’ constraints that encourage differentiated …
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Grand theories, differentiated integration
Even though differentiation has become a core feature of the EU, the grand theories have focused almost exclusively on uniform …
Frank Schimmelfennig, Thomas Winzen
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Opting out from European Union legislation: the differentiation of secondary law
Differentiated integration in the European Union (EU) has been primarily discussed and analysed at the treaty level, whereas lack of …
Thomas Duttle, Katharina Holzinger, Thomas Malang, Thomas Schäubli, Frank Schimmelfennig, Thomas Winzen
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Eastern enlargement and differentiated integration: towards normalization
Against the background of theoretical arguments and the historical record, enlargements of the European Union tend to increase …
Frank Schimmelfennig, Thomas Winzen
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Explaining differentiation in European Union treaties
Since the early 1990s, European integration has become increasingly differentiated. Analysing the conditions under which member states …
Thomas Winzen, Frank Schimmelfennig
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From capacity to sovereignty: Legislative politics and differentiated integration in the European Union
The literature suggests that legislative politics among European Union Member States is characterised by economic exchanges, and …
Thomas Winzen
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Instrumental and Constitutional Differentiation in the European Union
Differentiation has become a salient feature of European integration. Yet systematic empirical evidence is lacking about its origins, …
Frank Schimmelfennig, Thomas Winzen
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