Christine Arnold

Publications (3)1.26 Total impact

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  Article: The Importance of Actor Cleavages in Negotiating the European Constitution

  Madeleine O. Hosli, Christine Arnold
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  ABSTRACT: This paper aims to explore government preferences and cleavages in the bargaining process on the European Constitution, across the range of 25 EU member states. The study focuses on preferences concerning socioeconomic policymaking and explores whether divisions can be discerned between preferences held by actors according to locations on the left-right policy scale, actors in older as compared to newer EU states, net EU budget positions, domestic rates of support for European integration, and smaller as compared to larger states. The analysis also controls for possible external effects, such as recent domestic macroeconomic developments. Negotiations on the European Constitution are found to be determined less by general transnational left-right divisions, but cleavages according to the length of EU membership and the size of EU member states.
  International Studies Quarterly 08/2010; 54(3):615 - 632. · 1.26 Impact Factor
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  Article: The EU Constitution and Positions on Governance

  Paul Pennings, Christine Arnold, Madeleine O Hosli
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  ABSTRACT: This paper examines whether the left-right cleavage, structuring preferences at the national level, has also been influential regarding the process of Constitution-building during the European Union (EU) Convention (2002-2003). Our approach to constitutionalism presumes that cleavage theory is well equipped to explain differences between parties, but it is not able to explain the process with which parties arrive at a consensus. Our modified cleavage approach of constitutionalism explains these findings by uncertainty about probability distributions, "epistemic consensus" and the characteristics of the European institutional context. Our data analysis confirms the assumption that the left-right cleavage was not dominant in the Constitution-building process, but it illustrates that the division into party families had a strong impact on the process of coalition-formation. At least half of all documents submitted to the Convention were set up together with at least one member of the same party family and/or with a member of a nearby party family. Our analysis also shows that the process of consensus-formation was facilitated by the fact that many extremist and new parties, challenging the existing structures, were excluded from the deliberation processes.
  JOINT SESSIONS OF WORKSHOPS OF THE EUROPEAN CONSORTIUM FOR POLITICAL RESEARCH. 01/2004;
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  Article: Party Competition and the European Constitution✰

  Christine Arnold, Paul Pennings
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  ABSTRACT: The salience attributed to the European Constitution and the positions taken by national parties during the 2004 European Parliament elections is the focus of this paper. Using content analysis of party manifestos, we find that the constitution has been politicized and contested. In countries in which the issue has been brought into the lime light by one party or more, other parties have indeed followed suit. Also, the patterns of salience fit into a polarization of the left versus the right and are predictable by the internal dissent of a party over European integration. Additionally, the position parties have taken on the constitution can be derived by their left/right standing and their participation in the constitutional convention. (C. Arnold), pjm.pennings@fsw.vu.nl (P. Pennings).