Article
French
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Abstract
`titrebWhat is the Price of Opposition? Characteristics and Consequences of Eurocriticism among French and German MP’s in the UMP, CDU/ CSU and FDP Parties`/titreb The 2012 votes on the European Fiscal Compact and the European Stability Mechanism enabled a few French and German MPs to contest their party’s position on this matter. We conduct a comparative analysis of the processes which led to these parliamentarians’ opposition and of the consequences of their votes on their political career. We show that these intra-partisan oppositions are focused on different stakes in France and Germany and that, in Germany, partisan discipline led to the control – and in some cases to the exclusion – of dissidents.