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Articles in reviewed journals
What are the driving forces and consequences of the politicization of immigration issues in European democracies? Immigration has been one of the key issues responsible for the emergence of a new “demarcation-integration” cleavage in Western Europe. While there is evidence that the radical populist right has been a driving force of this transformation, the political strategies, mechanisms and dynamics of this re-structuring of political conflict are still not sufficiently explored.
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Recent crises in Europe have led to massive domestic political conflict and mobilization. From a cleavage perspective, it is important that the various contested issues, such as European integration and immigration, have not been articulated in isolation. By contrast, political actors have linked them to one another and often to a broader—usually populist—criticism of representative democracy.
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The project aims to build and operate an interactive Observatory for Political Conflict in Electoral and Protest Politics in Europe (PolDem). The European University Institute (EUI) and the Center for Civil Society Research jointly run the project. It is coordinated by Swen Hutter and Hanspeter Kriesi. The aim is to provide scholars and the broader public with continuously updated data on Europe's most important issues and actors in electoral and protest politics.
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The WZB Berlin Social Science Center, the European University Institute and the London School for Economics and Political Science were pleased to jointly organize the second European Junior Faculty Forum for Public Law and Jurisprudence.
The 2018 EJFF workshop was held on July 12-13, 2018 in Florence at the European University Institute.
The 2018 EJFF participants included: