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De Wilde, Prof. Pieter

Pieter de Wilde

Pieter de Wilde is Professor of European Politics and Society at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen. De Wilde studied Political Science at the University of Amsterdam and earned his PhD in Political Science at ARENA, Centre for European Studies, at the University of Oslo. As a PhD student, he conducted research into the politicization of European integration: the process in which EU membership and further European integration politics have become relevant and contested.

De Wilde’s current research focuses on political conflicts about European integration and globalization, including the politicization of European integration, EU responsiveness concerning the public opinion , the role of national parliaments within the EU, Euroscepticism, and the extent to which various political topics have been embedded within a wider political divide. His most recent research project is entitled ‘Unelected Representatives: The Impact on Liberal Democracy in Europe’. This research looks at how political activists, such as Greta Thunberg, can play a role as non-elected representatives by making representative claims.

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Publications

2024

Andrione‐Moylan, A., de Wilde, P., & Raube, K. (2024). (De‐)politicization Discourse Strategies: The Case of Trade. JCMS-Journal of Common Market Studies, 62(1), 21-37. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13475
Vik, A., & de Wilde, P. (2024). Reconceptualizing “feeling represented”: A new approach to measure how feelings of political representation are constructed. Acta Politica. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-024-00358-2

2023

de Wilde, P., Langsæther, P. E., & Özdemir, S. (2023). Critical junctures and the crystallization of cosmopolitanism and communitarianism. European Political Science Review, 15(2), 157-176. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755773922000534
de Wilde, P. (2023). More power, less influence: European union actors in media debates on fiscal policy after the eurocrisis. Journal of European Integration, 45(2), 239-255. https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2022.2115485
de Wilde, P. (2023). Peace, Prosperity and Protection: Narratives of Integration and the ‘Justification Jungle’ of Europe's Public Spheres. JCMS-Journal of Common Market Studies, 61(5), 1194-1210. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13456
Andrione‐Moylan, A., de Wilde, P., & Raube, K. (2023). Varieties of EU trade politicisation in EU public debates. Global Policy, 14(S3), 19-29. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13184

2022

de Wilde, P., Rasch, A., & Bossetta, M. (2022). Analyzing Citizen Engagement With European Politics on Social Media. Politics and Governance, 10(1), 90-96. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v10i1.5233
Gora, A., & de Wilde, P. (2022). The essence of democratic backsliding in the European Union: deliberation and rule of law. Journal of European Public Policy, 29(3), 342-362. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2020.1855465

2020

Strijbis, O., Helmer, J., & de Wilde, P. (2020). A cosmopolitan–communitarian cleavage around the world? Evidence from ideological polarization and party–voter linkages. Acta Politica, 55, 408-431. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-018-0122-0
de Wilde, P. (2020). The Quality of Representative Claims: Uncovering a Weakness in the Defense of the Liberal World Order. Political Studies, 68(2), 271-292. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032321719845199

2019

de Wilde, P., & Rauh, C. (2019). Going full circle: the need for procedural perspectives on EU responsiveness. Journal of European Public Policy, 26(11), 1737-1748. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2019.1668043
de Wilde, P. (2019). Media logic and grand theories of European integration. Journal of European Public Policy, 26(8), 1193-1212. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2019.1622590
de Wilde, P. (2019). The making of four ideologies of globalization. European Political Science Review, 11(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1755773918000164
de Wilde, P., Koopmans, R., Merkel, W., Strijbis, O., & Zürn, M. (Eds.) (2019). The Struggle over Borders: Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism. Cambridge University Press.

2018

de Wilde, P., & Raunio, T. (2018). Redirecting national parliaments: Setting priorities for involvement in EU affairs. Comparative European Politics, 16, 310-329. https://doi.org/10.1057/cep.2015.28
Rauh, C., & de Wilde, P. (2018). The opposition deficit in EU accountability: Evidence from over 20 years of plenary debate in four member states. European Journal of Political Research, 57(1), 194-216. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12222

2017

Rauh, C., de Wilde, P., & Schwalbach, J. (2017). The ParlSpeech data set: Annotated full-text vectors of 3.9 million plenary speeches in the key legislative chambers of seven European states. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/c5gdm

2016

de Wilde, P., Junk, W. M., & Palmtag, T. (2016). Accountability and opposition to globalization in international assemblies. European Journal of International Relations, 22(4), 823-846. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066115604032
de Wilde, P., & Lord, C. (2016). Assessing actually-existing trajectories of EU politicisation. West European Politics, 39(1), 145-163. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2015.1081508
Zürn, M., & de Wilde, P. (2016). Debating globalization: cosmopolitanism and communitarianism as political ideologies. Journal of Political Ideologies, 21(3), 280-301. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2016.1207741
de Wilde, P., Leupold, A., & Schmidtke, H. (2016). Introduction: the differentiated politicisation of European governance. West European Politics, 39(1), 3-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2015.1081505

2015

de Wilde, P. (2015). The Imperative of a European Welfare State. Int Stud Rev, 17(3), 498-500. https://doi.org/10.1111/misr.12248

2014

de Wilde, P., Michailidou, A., & Trenz, H.-J. (2014). Converging on euroscepticism: Online polity contestation during European Parliament elections. European Journal of Political Research, 53(4), 766-783. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12050
Michailidou, A., Trenz, H.-J., & de Wilde, P. (2014). The Internet and European Integration: Pro- and Anti-EU Debates in Online News Media. Barbara Budrich Publishers. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvdf0dxq
de Wilde, P. (2014). The Operating Logics of National Parliaments and Mass Media in the Politicisation of Europe. Journal of Legislative Studies, 20(1), 46-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2013.871484

2013

de Wilde, P., Michailidou, A., & Trenz, H.-J. (2013). Contesting Europe: Exploring Euroscepticism in Online Media. ECPR Press.
de Wilde, P. (2013). Representative claims analysis: Theory meets method. Journal of European Public Policy, 20(2), 278-294. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2013.746128
Teney, C., Lacewell, O. P., & de Wilde, P. (2013). Winners and losers of globalization in Europe: Attitudes and ideologies. European Political Science Review, 6(4), 575-595. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755773913000246

2012

de Wilde, P., & Zürn, M. (2012). Can the Politicization of European Integration be Reversed? Journal of Common Market Studies, 50(s1), 137-153. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5965.2011.02232.x
de Wilde, P., & Trenz, H.-J. (2012). Denouncing European integration: Euroscepticism as polity contestation. European Journal of Social Theory, 15(4), 537-554. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431011432968
de Wilde, P. (2012). Politicisation of the EU Budget: Conflict and the Constraining Dissensus. West European Politics, 35(5), 1075-1094. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2012.706411
de Wilde, P. (2012). Why the Early Warning Mechanism Does Not Alleviate the Democratic Deficit. Observatory of Parliaments after the Lisbon Treaty. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2128463

2011

de Wilde, P. (2011). Ex ante vs. ex post: The trade-off between partisan conflict and visibility in debating EU policy-formulation in national parliaments. Journal of European Public Policy, 18(5), 672-689. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2011.586797
de Wilde, P. (2011). No effect, weapon of the weak or reinforcing executive dominance? How media coverage affects national parliaments' involvement in EU policy-formulation. Comparative European Politics, 9, 123-144. https://doi.org/10.1057/cep.2009.13
de Wilde, P. (2011). No polity for old politics? a framework for analyzing the politicization of European integration. Journal of European Integration, 33(5), 559-575. https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2010.546849
de Wilde, P. (2011). The Plural Representative Space: How Mass Media and National Parliaments Stimulate Pluralism through Competition. In S. Kröger, & D. Friedrich (Eds.), The Challenge of Democratic Representation in the European Union (pp. 117-134). Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230355828_7

2007

de Wilde, P. (2007). Politicisation of European Integration: Bringing the Process into Focus. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2004986
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