Publications
Editorial
- J. Ganderson, A. Altiparmakis, A. Kyriazi, W. Schelkle (eds.), ‘Brexit: The Crisis that Wasn’t for the EU?’, West European Politics (47:5), DOI
Journal Articles
- J. Ganderson, A. Kyriazi (2024) ‘Braking and Exiting: Referendum Games, European Integration and the Road to the UK’s Brexit Vote’, Political Studies Review (23:2), pp. 461-481, DOI
Summary
This article challenges the idea that Britain’s EU referendum was necessarily the result of deep-rooted incompatibility or a sudden surge in Euroscepticism. Instead, it shows how years of political “referendum games” in Parliament built up pressure: backbench MPs repeatedly pushed for votes on Europe, and party leaders defused the tension by making promises of future referendums. Each new EU treaty sparked temporary backlashes, but over time these promises only parlayed pressure for a referendum. By the time of the Lisbon Treaty and the Eurozone crisis, this dynamic had escalated beyond leaders’ control, making an in/out vote a safer bet than further gaming. The article demonstrates and traces this process by analysing parliamentary debates from 2000 to 2015, using quantitative and qualitative text analysis methods to show how calls for referendum clustered around 'treaty moments' and episodically hardened into irresistible demands for a full exit referendum in 2013.
European Union • Referendums • Brexit • Euroscepticism • British politics • Quantitative and qualitative text analysis - J. Ganderson, A. Altiparmakis, A. Kyriazi, W. Schelkle (2024) ‘Brexit: The Crisis that Wasn’t for the EU?’, West European Politics (47:5), pp. 997-1020, DOI
Summary
This special issue introduction recalls the alarm raised in EU capitals and Brussels after the UK’s in-out referendum delivered a Leave vote in June 2016. The fear was of a domino effect and the further fragmentation of an already divided EU. Seven years later, it is clear that there was rapid attrition of Eurosceptic triumphalism, and the EU-27 showed remarkable unity. This required a sustained collective effort to contain a membership crisis and maintain the EU polity. Yet, the issue contributors challenge the notion that the alarm was unfounded and explain why this counter-factual did not materialise, even though potential for future membership crises of different sorts was revealed. Theoretically, this supports an understanding of the EU as a polity that is fragile, yet able to assert porous borders, exercise authority over a diverse membership, and mobilise a modicum of loyalty when the entire integration regime is under threat.
European Union • Brexit • Cleavages • Crisis • Post-functionalism - J. Ganderson, N. Donati, M. Ferrera, A. Kyriazi, Z. Truchlewski (2024) ‘A Very European Way Out: Polity Maintenance and the Design of Article 50’, Government & Opposition (Online), DOI
- J. Ganderson, A. Altiparmakis, A. Kyriazi and J. Miró (2023) ‘Quiet Unity: Salience, Politicisation and Togetherness in the EU’s Brexit Negotiating Position’, West European Politics (47:5), pp. 1045-1071, DOI
- J. Ganderson, K. Alexander Shaw and W. Schelkle (2023) ‘The Strength of a Weak Centre: Pandemic Politics in the European Union and the United States’, Comparative European Politics (21:4), pp. 448-469, DOI
- J. Ganderson, Z. Truchlewski and W. Schelkle (2023) ‘Who is Afraid of Emergency Politics? Public Opinion on European Crisis Management during Covid-19’, Comparative European Politics (21:4), pp. 470-490, DOI
- J. Ganderson (2023) ‘Exiting after Brexit: Public Perceptions of Future European Union Member State Departures’, West European Politics (47:5), pp. 1199-1222, DOI
- J. Ganderson (2022) ‘Prawn Cocktails and Cold Shoulders: Labour, the Conservatives and the City of London since the 1990s’, Political Quarterly (93:2), pp. 209-217. DOI
- J. Ganderson, Z. Truchlewski and W. Schelkle (2021) ‘Buying Time for Democracies? European Union Emergency Politics in the Time of COVID-19’, West European Politics (44:5-6), pp. 1353-1375. DOI
- J. Ganderson (2020) ‘To Change Banks or Bankers? – The Politics of Bank Structural Regulation in the UK and the Netherlands’, Business & Politics (22:1), pp. 196-223. DOI
- J. Ganderson, L. Seelkopf, P. Genschel, J. Limberg, Y. Mnaili, E. Ehmanis (2019) ‘The Rise of Modern Taxation: A New Comprehensive Dataset of Tax Introductions Worldwide’, Review of International Organizations (16), pp. 239-263. DOI
Chapters in Edited Volumes
- J. Ganderson and J. Limberg (2021) ‘The Rise of General Consumption Taxes’ in P. Genschel and L. Seelkopf (Eds.) Global Taxation: How Modern Taxes Conquered the World, Oxford: UOP. pp. 199-222. DOI
- J. Ganderson (2021) ‘Fighting for Fintech: Competition, Regulation and Accountability in a Europe of Financial Innovation’ in A. Héritier and J. Karremans (Eds). Regulating Finance in Europe: Policy effects and Political Accountability, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. pp. DOI
- J. Ganderson, A Héritier and A. Smolenska (2020) ‘The Impacts of Technological Innovation on Regulatory Structure: Fintech in post-crisis Europe’. Chapter, in M. Schoeller and A. Héritier (Eds.) Governing Finance in Europe: A Centralization of Rulemaking?, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. pp. 164-189. DOI
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