Big politics, small money: Euroscepticism's diminishing return in EU budget allocations

Tal Sadeh, Yoav Raskin and Eyal Rubinson
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Tal Sadeh: School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs, 26745Tel Aviv University, Israel
Yoav Raskin: School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs, 26745Tel Aviv University, Israel
Eyal Rubinson: 235251Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), Spain

European Union Politics, 2022, vol. 23, issue 3, 437-461

Abstract: This study is motivated by the puzzle of diminishing gains in the European Union budget bargaining for governments with a Eurosceptic domestic audience, even as Euroscepticism is increasingly represented in national legislatures. Engaging literature on fiscal federalism in the European Union and the institutionalist politics of its budgetary process, we argue that European integration diminishes the ability of member states’ governments to leverage Euroscepticism to extract concessions from the European Union budget. This is because Euroscepticism is becoming less exceptional, and greater differentiation in integration reduces the will to reward those seen as systematically less committed to integration. Running panel-corrected standard errors regressions on Operating Budgetary Balances since 1977, we find that in intergovernmental bargaining, domestic popular Euroscepticism is an advantage, but parliamentary Euroscepticism is not.

Keywords: Bargaining; Euroscepticism; fiscal transfers; integration; responsiveness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/14651165221090740

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