The dynamics of de-Europeanisation in a multilevel context: Resistance and power politics in Scotland and Wales

Minto, Rachel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0040-3198, Rowe, Carolyn and Royles, Elin 2025. The dynamics of de-Europeanisation in a multilevel context: Resistance and power politics in Scotland and Wales. Journal of Common Market Studies 10.1111/jcms.13735

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Abstract

In recent years, theoretical models which seek to capture the dynamics of European integration and Europeanisation have turned their attention to new processes of disintegration and de-Europeanisation, presenting new understandings of where politics, policy-makers and public opinion have moved to roll back integration. In this article, looking at the process of de-Europeanisation in Scotland and Wales since 2016, we take forward this scholarship by providing a nuanced assessment of the multilevel effects of these processes and their implications. We find that despite their governments' ambitions to retain agency over the speed and direction of de-Europeanisation in Scotland and Wales, their resistance to the overall UK-led direction of travel has thus far produced few results due to the continued constitutional dominance of the UK Government. We argue that this expands current understandings of de-Europeanisation in practice as we draw attention to the prevalence of ‘forced de-Europeanisation’, which has prevented these devolved governments of the UK from substantiating their particular re-engagement preferences. Consequently, the extent of differentiation in the processes of de-Europeanisation across the territories of the United Kingdom because of Brexit has been limited, contrasting sharply with the differentiated model of Europeanisation, which existed during British EU membership.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Schools > Cardiff Law & Politics
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0021-9886
Funders:	James Madison Charitable Trust
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	28 January 2025
Date of Acceptance:	20 January 2025
Last Modified:	19 Mar 2025 14:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/175660

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