The differentiated politicisation of European governance / edited by Pieter de Wilde, Anna Leupold and Henning Schmidtke.

The chapters in this book were originally published in West European politics, volume 39, issue 1 (January 2016)--Page ix.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the differentiated politicisation of European governance / Pieter de Wilde, Anna Leupold and Henning Schmidtke -- Beyond authority transfer : explaining the politicisation of Europe / Edgar Grande and Swen Hutter -- The politicisation of European integration in domestic election campaigns / Dominic Hoeglinger -- The differentiated politicisation of European tax governance / Henning Schmidtke -- A structural approach to politicisation in the Euro crisis / Anna Leupold -- The Eurozone crisis and citizen engagement in EU affairs / Senastian Baglioni and Achim Hurrelmann -- The party politics of the Euro crisis in the German Bundestag : frames, positions and salience / Arndt Wonka -- Assessing actually-existing trajectories of EU politicisation / Pieter de Wilde and Christopher Lord -- Opening up Europe : next steps in politicisation research / Michael Zürn.

This book on the differentiated politicisation of European governance provides an overview of research on the growing salience of EU governance, polarisation of opinion and expansion of actors and audiences engaged in monitoring and influencing EU affairs in the national context. The contributors empirically map the diversity of these three core components of politicisation across countries, time and arenas. The chapters develop novel insights into the causes and consequence of this differentiated politicisation of European governance. Going beyond the current literature, the contributions disaggregate and examine politicisation processes among different sets of actors and on different objects using quantitative and qualitative methods leading to a differentiated picture of politicisation patterns across EU-member states and non-member states, such as Switzerland. They highlight the explanatory power of intermediating factors, like the institutional surrounding and country-specific economic and cultural conditions in addition to the transfer of political authority to the EU as the main driver of politicisation.