Shadowboxing in silence: balancing with European Semester guidelines in national parliamentary debates on economic policies
Fecha de publicación
2022ISSN
1946-0171
Resumen
This article examines national responses to the introduction of a strong policy coordination tool by the European Commission: the European Semester. The tool was introduced in 2012 in reaction to the economic crisis to prevent unsustainable policy choices within EMU. It sets annual country-specific recommendations for economic policies, which the Member States are expected to implement when drafting national budgets. We study the uptake of the policy tool in three disparate Member States: Finland, Spain and France in 2013. The article explores how national parliaments tackle the challenge imposed on national sovereignty by the powerful tool. We investigate the discursive practices and justifications evinced by national politicians on policy proposal in the parliamentary debate on annual state budget. Politicians balance between contrastive normative frameworks by operating on evasive discursive formulations and performative silences, which point to a deafened legitimation work and double commitment within the multilevel polity of the EU.
Tipo de documento
Artículo
Versión del documento
Versión publicada
Lengua
English
Materias (CDU)
316 - Sociología. Comunicación
32 - Política
Palabras clave
Institucionalisme discursiu
Europeització
Treball de legitimació
Sobirania nacional
Debat parlamentari
Discursive institutionalism
Europeanization
Legitimation work
National sovereignty
Parliamentary debate
Institucionalidad discursiva
Europeización
Trabajo de legitimación
Soberanía nacional
Debate parlamentario
Páginas
21
Publicado por
Taylor & Francis Group
Publicado en
Critical Policy Studies
Citación
Rautajoki, Hanna; Pi Ferrer, Laia. Shadowboxing in silence: balancing with European Semester guidelines in national parliamentary debates on economic policies. Critical Policy Studies, 2022, 1-21. Disponible en: <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19460171.2022.2101015>. Fecha de acceso: 6 sep. 2022. DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2022.2101015
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