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swisspoliticalscireview-2024-gago-thedomesticpoliticsoftheswisseunegotiationsontheinstitutional
Journal article

The domestic politics of the Swiss‐EU negotiations on the Institutional Framework Agreement (and beyond)

BP2-STS

  • 2024
Published in:
  • Swiss Political Science Review. - 2024, vol. Early View, p. 1-18
Consensus-building
Corporatism
Institutional framework agreement
Swiss-EU relations
Veto power
English This article examines the domestic political dynamics surrounding the negotiations between Switzerland and the European Union (EU) on the Institutional Framework Agreement. It identifies the main domestic difficulties that prevented an agreement from being reached. The empirical reconstruction of the negotiations suggests that domestic consensus became very difficult because the issues under negotiation were two-dimensional, activating both the anti-EU and the left–right dimensions. Moreover, the data suggest two main factors that prevented this difficulty from being resolved. First, political parties across the political spectrum were internally divided on the issues under negotiation. Second, the worsening corporatist dynamic between the Confederation and the social partners, as well as between the social partners themselves, made it very difficult to activate the concessions to the trade unions that had been used in previous EU negotiations to secure their agreement.
Faculty
Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
Department
Département de travail social, politiques sociales et développement global
Language
  • English
Classification
Politics
License
CC BY-NC-ND
Open access status
green
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https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/330077
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