A Threatening Horizon: The Impact of the Welfare State on Support for <scp>E</scp>urope

Beaudonnet, Laurie

doi:10.1111/jcms.12196

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“…The main problem for EU legitimacy today appears to be providing fast solutions to the most urgent problems perceived by citizens, something that is not easy to attain through EU decision-making, which is based on long negotiations and consensus that is difficult to reach given the vested interests of the national governments. (Beaudonnet 2015), instrumental sociotropic proxies (Guerra 2013) and inequalities (Beckfield 2006;Kuhn, van Elsas, Hakhverdian and van der Brug 2014) that could be ascribed to the utilitarian calculation approach. 4 The most recent EB waves of 2016 do not include, unfortunately, all the variables that are crucial for the test of our hypotheses.…”

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The European Union under Threat of a Trend toward National Sovereignty

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Mauro

Memoli

2018

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The European Union represents the most advanced case of voluntary regional integration in the world. But today, after several decades of the pooling of sovereignty within the EU, Europe is experiencing a renaissance of national sovereignty supported by a nationalistic turn of public opinion and represented by parties on both ends of the political spectrum. The size of the national sovereignty trend among European citizens and discovery of its main drivers are the main problems that we address in the article. Through Eurobarometer data of the period before the referendum on Brexit, we show that seeing a better future outside the Union is related to shrinking support for globalization and liberal values among the population. Furthermore, popular disaffection toward EU membership did not develop in a vacuum but is fuelled by the contemporaneous occurrence of two shocks, the economic and the migration crises, a combination of circumstances that have aggravated the problem of the reduced legitimacy of the EU among citizens.

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The European Union under Threat of a Trend toward National Sovereignty

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Mauro

Memoli

2018

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“…According to Gabel (1998), however, people make such assessments on the individual basis of selfinterest; as a result, the most educated individuals are likely to support the EU because they have more to gain from trade liberalisation. In other studies, the benefits of the EU are judged according to its impact on the welfare State (Kumlin, 2009;Burgoon, 2009;Beaudonnet, 2015), as well as on national public policies (Hobolt and Brouard, 2011). According to Beaudonnet, preferences for European social policy are generated by the existence of limited social protections and a poor economic situation at the national level (2015).…”

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The Meaning of the European Union and Public Support for European Integration

Jayet

2020

J of Common Market Studies

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This paper proposes a cognitive approach that focuses on the cognitive representations that underpin public support for the European Union. Its objectives are threefold: (1) to describe systems of representation associated with support for the EU; (2) to illustrate the importance of less commonly studied representations, such as liberal cosmopolitan representations; and (3) to demonstrate that at the beginning of the 2000s, the EU often represented greater economic prosperity and/or social protection for many Central, Eastern and Southern European countries, although the situation has changed significantly since then. This paper uses Eurobarometer data from 2004 to 2017 as well as multilevel models to examine how cognitive representations of the EU can explain public support for the EU, including variations across countries.

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“…For general political attitudes, there is a plurality of different outcomes not directly related to political participation and policy-specific attitudes. These are not as coherently studied as participation and policy attitudes, but include outcomes such as anti-immigration attitudes (Nagayoshi & Hjerm, 2015), trust in the government (Bruch & Soss, 2018), support for the European Union (Beaudonnet, 2015), and interpersonal trust (Kumlin & Rothstein, 2005).…”

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Policy Feedback Effects on Mass Publics: A Quantitative Review

Larsen¹

2018

Policy Studies Journal

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There has been an impressive stride in the research on policy feedback effects on mass publics over recent years. However, we lack systematic evidence on how large such policy feedback effects are in the literature. This article provides a review of 65 published studies and quantifies the findings and key themes in the policy feedback literature. The results show a great degree of heterogeneity in the domains and outcomes being studied and in the effects of policies on the public. In line with the findings from narrative reviews, feedback effects are greater for outcomes related to political participation and engagement. Last, the review sheds light on important theoretical and methodological limitations to be addressed in future research.

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A Threatening Horizon: The Impact of the Welfare State on Support for Europe

Cited by 24 publications

References 44 publications

The European Union under Threat of a Trend toward National Sovereignty

The European Union under Threat of a Trend toward National Sovereignty

The Meaning of the European Union and Public Support for European Integration

Policy Feedback Effects on Mass Publics: A Quantitative Review

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