The politics of discretionary government commitments to European integration referendums
The politics of discretionary government commitments to European integration referendums
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政府对欧洲一体化公投的自由裁量承诺的政治
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2013
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K. Oppermann
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K. Oppermann
文章对各国政府在没有义务的情况下承诺就欧洲一体化举行全民公投的政治原因进行了二维分类：第一个维度是关于战略性使用公投承诺的政治层面，并区分了国内和欧洲的原因；第二个维度涉及各国政府在承诺举行欧盟公投时的战略模式，这种模式既可以是为了避免政治损失(防御模式)，也可以是为了实现政治收益(进攻模式)。总而言之，这种类型学为各国政府承诺参加欧盟公投提供了四种理想的理由：非政治化；全民公投；红线；以及国际主义的欧盟公投承诺。在实证分析中，本文运用这一类型法对28个政府对欧盟全民公投的自由裁量承诺案例进行了分类，并介绍了为此目的进行的专家调查的结果。
The article develops a two-dimensional typology of political reasons for governments to pledge referendums on European integration when they are not obliged to do so: the first dimension is about the political level at which the strategic use of referendum pledges is targeted and it distinguishes between domestic and European reasons; the second dimension attends to the strategic mode of governments when pledging EU referendums which can either be about avoiding political losses (the defensive mode) or about realizing political gains (the offensive mode). In combination, the typology yields four ideal types of reasons for governments to commit to EU referendums: the depoliticizing; plebiscitary; red-line; and internationalist EU referendum pledges. In the empirical analysis, the article applies this typology to classify 28 cases of discretionary government commitments to EU referendums and it presents the findings of an expert survey that has been conducted for this purpose.