Political Asylum and Sovereignty-Sharing in Europe

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Author: Sicakkan, Hakan G.

Source: Government and Opposition, Volume 43, Number 2, Spring 2008 , pp. 206-229(24)

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Abstract:

In focusing on the relationships between asylum recognition rates and the different institutional arrangements through which European states share or preserve their sovereignty, this article seeks to show how sovereignty-sharing affects the right to political asylum in practice. After a qualitative overview of variations in sovereignty-sharing forms, the article presents the results from a multiple regression analysis of the relationship between legal and institutional frames of asylum decision-making in 17 West European countries (EU-15, Norway and Switzerland) and the asylum recognition rates in these countries. The article ends with a brief assessment of the significance of the results for a potential policy change in the European Union.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.2007.00253.x

Publication date: 2008-03-01