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What is the essence of political conflict in the European Union? For the classic theories of European integration the answer is simple. Political cleavages are structured along an independence-integration divide (Haas 1958; Hoffmann 1966; Moravcsik 1998).2 With the EU’s discretion to regulate social and economic policies steadily increasing, this perspective has been challenged, however. More recent accounts speculate that the transfer of these competences over issues that traditionally fuelled left-right conflict at the domestic level, has added a left-right ideological dimension to the EU political space (Hix 1999; Hix and Lord 1997).
A modified version of this chapter has been published in European Union Politics (Veen 2012a). The rigorous critique and suggestions made by the editor and four anonymous referees are gratefully acknowledged.
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Veen, T. (2011). The Dimensionality and Nature of Conflict. In: The Political Economy of Collective Decision-Making. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20174-5_4
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