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date: 25 February 2021

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Politicization refers to the increasing contentiousness of decision making in the process of regional integration. Research has focused on the conditions under which regional integration becomes politicized; how contestation over regional integration connects to domestic conflict; and the consequences of politicization for the speed and direction of regional integration. This article discusses left/right conflict and politicization, when an issue become politicized, and identity and politicization.

Keywords: EU, regional integration, decision making, politicization, identity

Liesbet Hooghe

Liesbet Hooghe is W.R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA and Chair in Political Science, Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the Vrije Universiteit (VU), Amsterdam, Netherlands; 2007/2008 Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study (HWK) in Northwest Germany in cooperation with the Collabo¬rative Research Center on Transformations of the State (TranState, 2003–2014) and the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS, 2007 ff.).

Gary Marks

Gary Marks is Burton Craige Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA and Chair in Multilevel Governance, Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the Vrije Universiteit (VU), Amsterdam, Netherlands; 2007/2008 Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study (HWK) in Northwest Germany in cooperation with the Collabo¬rative Research Center on Transformations of the State (TranState, 2003–2014) and the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS, 2007 ff.).

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