Rejecting the Constitution or the Market? Where does the Popular Resistance to European Integration Come From?

dc.contributor.author	Beckert, Jens
dc.date.accessioned	2017-12-12T16:55:38Z
dc.date.available	2017-12-12T16:55:38Z
dc.date.issued	2007-08
dc.description	Part Two of the Constitution Trilogy
dc.description.abstract	The French non in the referendum on the Constitutional Treaty in 2005 has brought the train of European integration to an unexpected stop. The rejection of the Constitution testifies to a gap between elite enthusiasm for further European integration and popular disenchantment that originated long before the referendums on the Constitutional Treaty. Why does European integration increasingly confront popular resistance? The answer given to this question relates not primarily to the economic payoffs and costs of European integration but rather to the normative implications of market liberalization. I argue, primarily with reference to France, that popular disenchantment and resistance reflect fears from ongoing economic changes which lead to a more and more direct exposure of people to market forces that escape political control.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/55035
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
dc.subject	European Union
dc.subject	France
dc.subject	Constitutional Treaty
dc.subject	Resistance
dc.subject	Market Liberalization
dc.title	Rejecting the Constitution or the Market? Where does the Popular Resistance to European Integration Come From?
dc.type	report

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