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Disintegration and party competition: evidence from parliamentary speeches on Brexit

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Tom Hunter @tommccraehunter.bsky.social · Jul 7

(1/5) My article Disintegration and Party Competition is out in the latest issue of @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! I ask how parties in other member states reacted to #Brexit. Do #Eurosceptic challengers frame it as an example to follow? Or do they instead row back on ‘hard’ demands to #leave the EU?

JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · Jun 30

▶️ @tommccraehunter.bsky.social on how British parties framed Brexit

How do political parties in the European Union (EU) react to disintegration bids from a member state? This question is important, as scholars have argued that framing by elites (particularly Eurosc...

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Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social · Jun 28

So thanks to the ERWG members - @sarahobolt.bsky.social, @simonhix.bsky.social, @catherinedevries.bsky.social, @macartan.bsky.social & @markkayser.bsky.social - for being such a great group to work with.

And I am excited to continue our work with the entire awesome @epssnet.bsky.social Council!

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Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social · Jun 28

Back home after an eventful weekend - I am proud of what we have created (even if we had hoped to arrive at a more consensual way forward).

Our work in the EPSA reform working group has been intense. Still, doing this with such an engaged, friendly & creative group has been a privilege and treat.

EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Jun 28

🌍 European Political Science Society is officially launched (EPSS)!

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Jun 26

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.

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Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.

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Tom Hunter @tommccraehunter.bsky.social · Jun 25

(1/3) I am excited to be on 2 great panels at #EPSA in Madrid! On Thursday 26 June (09:30 - 11:10, Room 0A.06) I present joint work with @stefwalter.bsky.social on Parties and IOs on the panel ‘Text analysis in the Study of IR’ chaired by @andduer.bsky.social

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Robin Huguenot-Noël @rhuguenotnoel.bsky.social · May 25

Highly innovative design with fine-grained implementation: truly recommend the read !

ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · May 12

DISINTEGRATION publ #9 @giorgiomalet.bsky.social and @stefwalter.bsky.social show key events in UK Brexit politics affected EU attitudes in other countries: foreign events can influence voters’ attitudes in other countries and events like Brexit have systemic consequences! doi.org/10.1177/1465...

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Nationalist Party Discourse

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · May 25

DISINTEGRATION dataset #4: IOParlspeech contains 600k+ statements on IOs in parliamentary debates (1990–2018) across AT, CA, DE, NZ, UK & US. Drawn from Parlspeech V2 & legislative corpora, with validated IO mentions + rich metadata.
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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · May 22

DISINTEGRATION dataset #3: The Nationalist Party Discourse dataset tracks how nationalist/EU-skeptic parties in 10 EU states talked about the EU during the Brexit decade (2012–2021). It codes 300+ media statements for tone, intensity & type of EU critique.
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The Nationalist Party Discourse Dataset provides data on nationalist party communication across European countries between 2012 and 2021, hand-coded from a EU/Brexit news corpus. It captures the disco...

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · May 21

DISINTEGRATION data feature #2: The Swiss Panel Survey tracks EU attitudes, CH-EU relations & intl cooperation over 6 waves (2019–2025)—spanning Brexit, COVID & Ukraine. Rich vote intention data on key referendums; weighted for representativeness.
doi.org/10.48573/enm...

DISINTEGRATION: Swiss Panel Survey: Public opinion on Switzerland’s relations with Europe and the World, 2019-2022

The years between 2019 and 2022 have been a crucial period for Swiss politics, a period that has redefined the country’s role in world politics and, in particular, its relationship with the European U...

DISINTEGRATION: Tracking Europeans' opinions of Brexit and the EU: An EU-wide, six wave cross-sectional survey, 2017–2019

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · May 20

DISINTEGRATION data feature #1: A 6-wave EU-wide panel survey (2017–2019) of 10,000+ respondents per wave across all 28 member states. Tracks EU attitudes, Brexit perceptions & political views—country-level analyses possible for FR, DE, IT, PL, ES & UK.
doi.org/10.48573/4bj...

Brexit marked a turning point in EU history. For the first time an EU member state left the EU, leading to concerns about the stability of the EU as a whole. Indeed, Brexit carried significant spillov...

Responding to Unilateral Challenges to International Institutions

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · May 19

DISINTEGRATION publ #14: How do international institutions respond to unilateral challenges like non-compliance or withdrawal? @stefwalter.bsky.social & Nicole Plotke-Scherly develop a framework showing how IOs balance cooperation losses vs. contagion risks.
doi.org/10.1093/isq/...

Abstracts. How do international institutions respond to unilateral challenges by its member states, such as non-compliance, blocking of reforms, renegotiat

International organizations in national parliamentary debates - The Review of International Organizations

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · May 16

DISINTEGRATION publ #13: IOParlspeech—600k+ parliamentary statements on IOs across 6 countries (1990–2018). @stefwalter.bsky.social & @tommccraehunter.bsky.social show that radical/opposition MPs speak more negatively about IOs, and auhtoritative IOs receive more attention.
doi.org/10.1007/s115...

This data article introduces IOParlspeech, an original dataset of over 600,000 statements on international organizations (IOs) in parliamentary debates in six countries between 1990 and 2018. We expla...

Silent responsiveness: How public opinion affects party discourse on wedge issues

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · May 15

DISINTEGRATION publ #12: When publics grow more Eurosceptic, do parties follow? In FR, IT & UK, mainstream parties adjusted positions but strategically decreased salience of EU issues. Study by @giorgiomalet.bsky.social and Cyrille Thiébaut
doi.org/10.1111/1475...

How does public opinion affect political discourse on issues that parties struggle to deal with? Although scholars tend to analyse party–voter linkages in terms of policy positions, parties can respo....

Learning from precedent: how the British Brexit experience shapes nationalist rhetoric outside the UK

ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · May 14

DISINTEGRATION publ #11: Do precedents like Brexit fuel further exits? @stefwalter.bsky.social & Marco Martini show that nationalist elites in 10 EU countries adjusted their rhetoric in response to the ups and downs of the Brexit process. Withdrawals send signals.
doi.org/10.1080/1350...

The liberal international order has recently come under increasing nationalist pressure, evidenced by a rise in nationalist demands to withdraw from international institutions. A growing literature...

Disintegration and party competition: evidence from parliamentary speeches on Brexit

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · May 13

DISINTEGRATION #10: How did parties in the EU react to Brexit? Analyzing parliamentary statements, @tommccraehunter.bsky.social finds that after the referendum, Eurosceptic challengers moderated their tone, while mainstream parties ramped up pro-EU rhetoric. No domino effect
doi.org/10.1080/1350...

How do political parties in the European Union (EU) react to disintegration bids from a member state? This question is important, as scholars have argued that framing by elites (particularly Eurosc...

ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · May 12

DISINTEGRATION publ #9 @giorgiomalet.bsky.social and @stefwalter.bsky.social show key events in UK Brexit politics affected EU attitudes in other countries: foreign events can influence voters’ attitudes in other countries and events like Brexit have systemic consequences! doi.org/10.1177/1465...

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Have your cake and eat it, too? Switzerland and the feasibility of differentiated integration after Brexit

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · May 9

DISINTEGRATION publ #8 @giorgiomalet.bsky.social and @stefwalter.bsky.social test the “have your cake and eat it, too” argument with voters. Drawing on a panel survey, they show that Brexit had a small but non-negligible impact on Swiss voters’ expectations about EU resolve. doi.org/10.1080/0140...

A key Eurosceptic argument is that countries can selectively retain only those aspects of European integration from which they benefit, while opting out of those aspects they dislike. How convincin...

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · May 8

DISINTEGRATION publication #7 @giorgiomalet.bsky.social shows that French rejection of the EU constitution in the 2005 referendum increased public opposition to the Constitution abroad, an example of cross-national social influence. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · May 7

DISINTEGRATION publ #6 @jurado.bsky.social , @sandraleon.bsky.social and @stefwalter.bsky.social explore how voters want their govs to respond when another country withdraws from an IO. Willingness to compromise depends on exposure to the costs and benefits of accommodation. doi.org/10.1017/S002...

Brexit Dilemmas: Shaping Postwithdrawal Relations with a Leaving State | International Organization | Cambridge Core

Brexit Dilemmas: Shaping Postwithdrawal Relations with a Leaving State - Volume 76 Issue 2

ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · May 6

DISINTEGRATION publication #5: @stefwalter.bsky.social analyzes how voter-endorsed attempts to withdraw from IOs reverberate abroad. With original survey data from EU-27 Europeans and Swiss voters, she finds both encouragement and deterrence effects. doi.org/10.1177/0010...

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The Backlash Against Globalization | Annual Reviews

ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · May 5

DISINTEGRATION publication #4: @stefwalter.bsky.social reviews the globalization backlash. She shows that the backlash is not associated with large swings in public opinion against globalization but is rather a result of its politicization by skeptical actors doi.org/10.1146/annu...

In recent years, the world has seen a rising backlash against globalization. This article reviews the nature, causes, and consequences of the globalization backlash. It shows that, contrary to a popul...

Politicizing International Cooperation: The Mass Public, Political Entrepreneurs, and Political Opportunity Structures | International Organization | Cambridge Core

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · May 2

@catherinedevries.bsky.social , @sarahobolt.bsky.social and @stefwalter.bsky.social develop a theoretical framework for the politicization of international cooperation, focusing on public contestation, political entrepreneurs, and political opportunity structures. doi.org/10.1017/S002...

Politicizing International Cooperation: The Mass Public, Political Entrepreneurs, and Political Opportunity Structures - Volume 75 Issue 2