Shadowboxing in silence: balancing with European Semester guidelines in national parliamentary debates on economic policies

References

• Alasuutari, P. 2015. “The Discursive Side of New Institutionalism.” Cultural Sociology 9 (2): 162–184. doi:10.1177/1749975514561805.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Alasuutari, P., and A. Qadir. 2014. Introduction. In National Policy-Making, edited by P. Alasuutari and A. Qadir, 1-22. New York: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Alasuutari, P., and A. Qadir. 2014. “Epistemic Governance: An Approach to the Politics of policy-making.” European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology 1 (1): 67–84. doi:10.1080/23254823.2014.887986.
   Google Scholar
• Alasuutari, P., and A. Qadir. 2016. “Imageries of the Social World in Epistemic Governance.” International Sociology 31 (6): 633–652. doi:10.1177/0268580916662386.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Auel, K., and T. Christiansen. 2015. “After Lisbon: National Parliaments in the European Union.” West European Politics 38 (2): 261–281. doi:10.1080/01402382.2014.990693.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Auel, K., and C. Neuhold. 2017. “Multi-arena Players in the Making? Conceptualizing the Role of National Parliaments since the Lisbon Treaty.” Journal of European Public Policy 24 (10): 1547–1561. doi:10.1080/13501763.2016.1228694.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Barrett, G. 2018. “European Economic Governance: Deficient in Democratic Legitimacy?” Journal of European Integration 40 (3): 249–264. doi:10.1080/07036337.2018.1450401.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bekker, S. 2021. “Hardening and Softening of country-specific Recommendations in the European Semester.” West European Politics 44 (1): 114–133. doi:10.1080/01402382.2020.1739407.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Beyer, D. 2018. “The Neglected Effects of Europeanization in the Member states–policy-making in Directly EU-influenced and Sovereign Domains.” Journal of European Public Policy 25 (9): 1294–1316. doi:10.1080/13501763.2017.1310275.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bickerton, C. J. 2012. European Integration: From nation-states to Member States. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Boli, J., and G. M. Thomas. 1999. Constructing World Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Börzel, T. A., and T. Risse. 2018. “From the Euro to the Schengen Crises: European Integration Theories, Politicization, and Identity Politics.” Journal of European Public Policy 25 (1): 83–108. doi:10.1080/13501763.2017.1310281.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brack, N., R. Coman, and A. Crespy. 2019. “Unpacking Old and New Conflicts of Sovereignty in the European Polity.” Journal of European Integration 41 (7): 817–832. doi:10.1080/07036337.2019.1665657.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bulmer, S., and J. Joseph. 2016. “European Integration in Crisis?” European Journal of International Relations 22 (4): 725–748. doi:10.1177/1354066115612558.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Butler, J. 1990. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Carstensen, M. B., and V. A. Schmidt. 2018a. “Power and Changing Modes of Governance in the Euro Crisis.” Governance 31 (4): 609–624. doi:10.1111/gove.12318.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Carstensen, M. B., and V. A. Schmidt. 2018b. “Ideational Power and Pathways to Legitimation in the Euro Crisis.” Review of International Political Economy 25 (6): 753–778. doi:10.1080/09692290.2018.1512892.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Clauwaert, S. 2016. The Country-specific Recommendations (Csrs) in the Social Field. Brussels: European Trade Union Institute (ETUI).
   Google Scholar
• Coman, R. 2018. “How Have EU ‘fire-fighters’ Sought to Douse the Flames of the Eurozone’s fast-and slow-burning Crises?” The British Journal of Politics and International Relations 20 (3): 540–554. doi:10.1177/1369148118768188.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Costamagna, F. 2013. “The European Semester in Action: Strengthening Economic Policy Coordination while Weakening the Social Dimension?” Torino: LPF Working Paper, Centro Einuadi, 5/13.
   Google Scholar
• Cozzolino, A. 2020. “The Discursive Construction of Europe in Italy in the Age of Permanent Austerity.” JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 58 (3): 580–598.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Crum, B. 2018. “Parliamentary Accountability in Multilevel Governance.” Journal of European Public Policy 25 (2): 268–286. doi:10.1080/13501763.2017.1363270.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• D’Erman, V., J. Haas, D. F. Schulz, and A. Verdun. 2019. “Measuring Economic Reform Recommendations under the European Semester.” Journal of Contemporary European Research 15 (2): 194–211.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dandashly, A., and A. Verdun. 2018. “Euro Adoption in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland.” Comparative European Politics 16 (3): 385–412. doi:10.1057/cep.2015.46.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Darvas, Z. M., and Á. Leandro. 2015. The Limitations of Policy Coordination in the Euro Area under the European Semester. In: Bruegel Policy Contribution.
   Google Scholar
• Fairclough, N. 2003. Analysing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research. London: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Fossum, J. E. 2015. “Democracy and Differentiation in Europe.” Journal of European Public Policy 22 (6): 799–815. doi:10.1080/13501763.2015.1020838.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Haas, J. S., V. J. D’Erman, D. F. Schulz, and A. Verdun. 2020. “Economic and Fiscal Policy Coordination after the Crisis: Is the European Semester Promoting More or Less State Intervention?” Journal of European Integration 42 (3): 327–344. doi:10.1080/07036337.2020.1730356.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Haddington, P., T. Keisanen, L. Mondada, and M. Nevile. 2014. Multiactivity in Social Interaction. John Benjamins Publishing Company https://doi.org/10.1075/z.187.
   Google Scholar
• Hallerberg, M., B. Marzinotto, and G. B. Wolff. 2011. “How Effective and Legitimate Is the European Semester?” In.: Bruegel Working Paper.
   Google Scholar
• Hassenteufel, P., and B. Palier. 2016. “Still the Sound of Silence? Towards a New Phase in the Europeanization of Welfare State Policies in France.” In The Sovereign Debt Crisis, the EU and Welfare State Reform, edited by C. De La porte and E. Heins, 181–205. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
   Google Scholar
• Heidbreder, E. G. 2013. “European Union Governance in the Shadow of Contradicting Ideas.” European Political Science Review 5 (1): 133–150. doi:10.1017/S1755773912000069.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Heinkelmann-Wild, T., L. Kriegmair, and B. Rittberger. 2020. “The EU multi-level System and the Europeanization of Domestic Blame Games.” Politics and Governance 8 (1): 85–94. doi:10.17645/pag.v8i1.2522.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hoerner, J. M. 2017. “Real Scrutiny or Smoke and Mirrors: The Determinants and Role of Resolutions of National Parliaments in European Union Affairs.” European Union Politics 18 (2): 307–322. doi:10.1177/1465116516688803.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hooghe, L., and G. Marks. 2009. “A Postfunctionalist Theory of European Integration: From Permissive Consensus to Constraining Dissensus.” British Journal of Political Science 39 (1): 1–23. doi:10.1017/S0007123408000409.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Housley, W., and R. Fitzgerald. 2007. “Categorization, Interaction, Policy, and Debate.” Critical Discourse Studies 4 (2): 187–206. doi:10.1080/17405900701464840.
   Google Scholar
• Kauppi, N., K. Palonen, and C. Wiesner. 2016. “The Politification and Politicisation of the EU.” Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory 19: 72–90.
   Google Scholar
• Knill, C., and D. Lehmkuhl. 2002. “The National Impact of European Union Regulatory Policy: Three Europeanization Mechanisms.” European Journal of Political Research 41 (2): 255–280. doi:10.1111/1475-6765.00012.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lahusen, C. 2016. “The Hidden Hand of the European Union and the Silent Europeanization of Public Debates on Unemployment.” In The Politics of Unemployment in Europe, edited by M. Giugni, 165–186. New York: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Macartney, H. 2014. “The Paradox of Integration? European Democracy and the Debt Crisis.” Cambridge Review of International Affairs 27 (3): 401–423. doi:10.1080/09557571.2013.819836.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• March, J. G., and J. P. Olsen. 1998. “The Institutional Dynamics of International Political Orders.” International Organization 52 (4): 943–969.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mastenbroek, E., and M. Kaeding. 2006. “Europeanization beyond the Goodness of Fit: Domestic Politics in the Forefront.” Comparative European Politics 4 (4): 331–354. doi:10.1057/palgrave.cep.6110078.
   Google Scholar
• Meyer, J. W., J. Boli, G. M. Thomas, and F. O. Ramirez. 1997b. “World Society and the nation-state.” American Journal of Sociology 103 (1): 144–181. doi:10.1086/231174.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Müller, P., K. Pomorska, and B. Tonra. 2021. “The Domestic Challenge to EU Foreign Policy-Making: From Europeanisation to de-Europeanisation?” Journal of European Integration 43 (5): 519–534. doi:10.1080/07036337.2021.1927015.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pi Ferrer, L. and H. Rautajoki. 2020. “Navigating coercion in political rhetoric: shifting strategies to cope with intervention by the Troika in Portugal.” Contemporary Politics, 26(2), 206–225.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rauh, C., and P. De Wilde. 2018. “The Opposition Deficit in EU Accountability: Evidence from over 20 Years of Plenary Debate in Four Member States.” European Journal of Political Research 57 (1): 194–216. doi:10.1111/1475-6765.12222.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rauh, C., and M. Zürn. 2020. “Authority, Politicization, and Alternative Justifications: Endogenous Legitimation Dynamics in Global Economic governance1.” Review of International Political Economy 27 (3): 583–611. doi:10.1080/09692290.2019.1650796.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rautajoki, H. In review. ”The Relational Scaffolding of Justifications in Policy-Making: Deploying the Multi Standard of Identifications in EU Policy Negotiation.”
   Google Scholar
• Rautajoki, H. 2012. “Membership Categorization as a Tool for Moral Casting in TV Discussion.” Discourse Studies, 14 (2): 243–260.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Risse, T. 2018. “Social Constructivism and European Integration.” In European Integration Theory, edited by T. Diez, T. A. Börzel, and T. Risse, 159–176. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Ryner, M. 2015. “Europe’s Ordoliberal Iron Cage: Critical Political Economy, the Euro Area Crisis and Its Management.” Journal of European Public Policy 22 (2): 275–294. doi:10.1080/13501763.2014.995119.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sacks, H. 1972. “On the Analyzability of Stories by Children.” In Directions in Sociolinguistics, edited by J. J. Gumberz and D. Hymes, 325–345. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
   Google Scholar
• Saurugger, S. 2013. “Constructivism and Public Policy Approaches in the EU.” Journal of European Public Policy 20 (6): 888–906. doi:10.1080/13501763.2013.781826.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Saurugger, S. 2014. “Europeanisation in Times of Crisis.” Political Studies Review 12 (2): 181–192. doi:10.1111/1478-9302.12052.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Saurugger, S. 2016. “Sociological Approaches to the European Union in Times of Turmoil.” Journal of Common Market Studies 54 (1): 70–86. doi:10.1111/jcms.12330.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Savage, D., and A. Weale. 2009. “Political Representation and the Normative Logic of two-level Games.” European Political Science Review 1 (1): 63–81. doi:10.1017/S1755773909000046.
   Google Scholar
• Scharpf, F. W. 2014. “Political Legitimacy in a non-optimal Currency Area.” In Democratic Politics in a European Union under Stress, edited by O. Cramme and S. Hobolt, 19–47. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Schmidt, V. A. 2008. “Discursive Institutionalism: The Explanatory Power of Ideas and Discourse.” Political Science 11 (1): 303–326. doi:10.1146/annurev.polisci.11.060606.135342.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schmidt, V. A. 2013. “Democracy and Legitimacy in the European Union Revisited: Input, Output and ‘Throughput’.” Political Studies 61 (1): 2–22. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9248.2012.00962.x.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Seabrooke, L. 2006. The Social Sources of Financial Power: Domestic Legitimacy and International Financial Orders. Cornell: Cornell University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Surel, Y. 2000. “The Role of Cognitive and Normative Frames in policy-making.” Journal of European Public Policy 7 (4): 495–512. doi:10.1080/13501760050165334.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Thomann, E., and F. Sager. 2017. “Toward a Better Understanding of Implementation Performance in the EU Multilevel System.” Journal of European Public Policy 24 (9): 1385–1407. doi:10.1080/13501763.2017.1314542.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Vanheuverzwijn, P., and A. Crespy. 2018. “Macro‐economic Coordination and Elusive Ownership in the European Union.” Public Administration 96 (3): 578–593. doi:10.1111/padm.12413.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Verdun, A., and J. Zeitlin. 2018. “Introduction: The European Semester as a New Architecture of EU Socioeconomic Governance in Theory and Practice.” Journal of European Public Policy 25 (2): 137–148. doi:10.1080/13501763.2017.1363807.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Vilpišauskas, R. 2013. “Eurozone Crisis and European Integration: Functional Spillover, Political Spillback?” Journal of European Integration 35 (3): 361–373. doi:10.1080/07036337.2013.774785.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Weale, A. 2017. “Dilemmas of Political Legitimacy in the European Union: A Contractarian Analysis.” European Politics and Society 18 (3): 348–362. doi:10.1080/23745118.2016.1231453.
   Google Scholar
• Wiener, A.; T. A. Börzel, and T. Risse. 2018. European Intergation Theory. Third edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Wilde, D., A. L. Pieter, and H. Schmidtke. 2016. “Introduction: The Differentiated Politicisation of European Governance.” West European Politics 39 (1): 3–22. doi:10.1080/01402382.2015.1081505.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Winzen, T., R. de Ruiter, and J. Rocabert. 2018. “Is Parliamentary Attention to the EU Strongest When It Is Needed the Most?” European Union Politics 19 (3): 481–501. doi:10.1177/1465116518763281.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Woll, C., and S. Jacquot. 2010. “Using Europe: Strategic Action in multi-level Politics.” Comparative European Politics 8 (1): 110–126. doi:10.1057/cep.2010.7.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wood, L. A., and R. O. Kroger. 2000. Doing Discourse Analysis: Methods for Studying Action in Talk and Text. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Zhelyazkova, A. 2014. “From Selective Integration into Selective Implementation.” European Journal of Political Research 53 (4): 727–746. doi:10.1111/1475-6765.12062.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar