1. Postfunctionalism reversed: solidarity and rebordering during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Genschel, Philipp and Jachtenfuchs, Markus
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COVID-19 pandemic , *COVID-19 , *SOLIDARITY , *EUROPEAN integration - Abstract
Postfunctionalism posits a tradeoff between the functional scale of governance and the territorial scope of community: functional scale is large and transnational for efficiency reasons; community is small-scale and (sub-)national for reasons of social trust and collective identification. COVID-19 has turned this tradeoff upside down: it has shrunk functional scale to the (sub-)national level in the name of security, while lifting expectations of community to the grand transnational scale in the name of solidarity. This reversal of scales has resulted in a rapid rebordering of the Single Market and the Schengen area on the one hand, and a significant debordering of fiscal risk and burden sharing on the other. We reconstruct the evolution of this double-movement from January to August 2020, contrast it to historical trends in the scale-community tradeoff of European integration, and discuss implications for postfunctionalist theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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