Federalism, rights, and backlash in Europe and the United States
Federalism, rights, and backlash in Europe and the United States
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联邦制、权利以及欧洲和美国的强烈反对
DOI：
10.1093/icon/mox081
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2017
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通讯作者：
Bilyana Petkova
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作者：
Thomas Kleinlein;Bilyana Petkova
本文介绍了“联邦制与权利：欧洲与美国的比较”研讨会的情况。在欧盟和美国，争取权利的斗争和（准）联邦结构的弹性再次成为一个紧迫的问题。在欧洲，欧盟作为一个共同项目的总体轨迹也存在争议。与美国一样，欧盟（准）联邦结构内部的斗争是通过法律的手段追求政治地位。在联邦主义理论中，无论是实验叙事还是“通过决定提出异议”的概念，都没有告诉我们在富有成效的实验、辩论和斗争与毁灭性的反弹之间划清界限。随着英国退欧等民族主义民粹主义运动的崛起，以及中欧和东欧民主国家的摇摇欲坠，今天的问题是，国家和地方在多大程度上仍然可以引导欧盟和美国面临的新一轮反弹和反反弹。比较研究，这将有助于我们学习如何区分生产和危险的反弹仍然处于起步阶段。然而，本次研讨会中的案例研究为这个问题的比较答案奠定了基础。
This article introduces the symposium “Federalism and Rights: Europe and the United States Compared.” In both the European Union and the United States, the struggle for rights and the resilience of (quasi-)federal structures is, once again, a burning issue. In Europe, the overall trajectory of the EU as a common project is also contested. As in the USA, struggles within the (quasi-)federal structure of the EU serve as the pursuit of political contestation through legal means. In federalism theory, neither the experimentation narrative nor the notion of “dissenting by deciding” tells us where to draw the line between fruitful experimentation, contestation, and struggle, on the one hand, and devastating backlash, on the other. With the looming rise of nationalist populist movements such as Brexit, but also the faltering democracies of Central and Eastern Europe, today the question becomes to what extent states and localities can still channel some of this new wave of backlash and counterbacklash facing both the EU and the United States. Comparative research that would help us to learn how to distinguish between productive and dangerous backlash is still at the very beginning. Yet the case studies in this symposium lay the groundwork for comparative answers to this very question.