The Brexit puzzle: polity attack and external rebordering

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Table 1. Functionalist and postfunctionalist crisis expectations compared.

	Postfunctionalism	Functionalism
Crisis type	Polity attack	Policy failure
Crisis origins	Rejection of supranational polity formation; nationalist governments and societies; community-relevant policies	Shocks and dysfunctions of supranational policies; vulnerable societies; low-capacity policies
Crisis preferences	Ideological polity interests; disagreement on polity preservation	Material policy interests; agreement on policy preservation
Crisis negotiations	Ideological and disintegrative; defence of communities; bargaining power depends on ideological determination	Distributive and integrative; distribution of preservation costs; bargaining power depends on affectedness and indispensability
Crisis outcomes	Defence of polity; integration of defenders and disintegration of attackers	Preservation of policy; integration