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Multiheaded Federations: The EU and Canada Compared
Fossum, John Erik
ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway
Canada; European Union; federalism; multiheaded federation; multilevel governance; multinational federation
The purpose of this article is to assess the merits of comparing the EU and Canada from a federal perspective. The point of departure is that both are federal-type entities that represent deviations from the standard or mainstream American model of federalism. That has given rise to alternative conceptions, multilevel governance for the EU, and a multinational federation for Canada. The article discusses the limitations of each such notion and instead argues for the merits of seeing both as different versions of multiheaded federation which is a useful analytical device for analyzing contestation over federalism within federal-type entities. This notion directs our attention to those with power and in the position to shape the political system’s federal-constitutional nature and design, which normally happens in the realm of constitutional politics. It is the fundamental struggle over sovereignty within a federal-type structure that gives rise to the notion of a multiheaded federation—there are multiple heads because there is no willingness to accept a hierarchical arrangement. The notion of a multiheaded federation is particularly suitable for capturing (de)federalisation processes and dynamics.
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2023-09-27 00:00:00
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Politics and Governance; Vol 11, No 3 (2023): United in Uniqueness? Lessons From Canadian Politics for European Union Studies
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Copyright (c) 2023 John Erik Fossum
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3444
2020-12-22T11:42:29Z
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After the Cartel Party: ‘Extra-Party’ and ‘Intra-Party’ Techno-Populism
Piquer, Jose
Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, UK
Jäger, Anton M. M.
Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, UK
cartelization; Labour Party; party politics; Podemos; populism; technocracy; technopopulism
This article reads the restructuring of European party systems in the 2010s as a transition from cartel to techno-populist parties, with a specific focus on left-populist challengers. Adopting a historical-institutionalist perspective, it demonstrates how a long-term cartelization and particular mode of crisis management after 2008 drove the gradual replacement of the party cartel with a cohabitation of populism and technocratic politics: techno-populism. Although this techno-populist template has been deployed for parties such as Five Star Movement and some right-wing populist outfits, it has usually been left aside for left-wing variants. This article investigates two techno-populist subtypes from the left: Corbynism in the United Kingdom and Podemos in Spain. The former took place within a cartel party (‘intra-party’), while the latter occurred from outside the party cartel (‘extra-party’). Although such party cartelization cuts across cases, the rise of Corbynism and Podemos took place under different institutional conditions: different electoral systems, different European Union membership and different dynamics of party competition on the left. The article concludes with the observation that rather than an anomaly, the presence of techno-populist tropes in and outside of parties and across institutional settings indicates the pervasiveness of these logics in contemporary European party politics.
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2020-12-17 03:56:25
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Politics and Governance; Vol 8, No 4 (2020): Varieties of Technocratic Populism around the World
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Copyright (c) 2020 Jose Piquer, Anton M. M. Jäger