Multi-level blame attribution and public support for EU welfare policies

Baute, Sharon; Pellegata, Alessandro

doi:10.1080/01402382.2022.2126679

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“…First, supranational factors are scarce to non-existent among the most common causes suggested by researchers and listed in their scales for respondents to explain their domestic economic issues (for the list of causes, see [ 23 ]). As Baute & Pellegata [ 60 ] show in their study, in multi-level governance systems, citizens can attribute responsibility for economic results to supranational institutions, such as the European Union. Second, we found that WEIRD samples are overrepresented in inequality and poverty attribution studies, at least among top journals.…”

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Measuring Attributions 50 Years on: From within-Country Poverty to Global Inequality

Bastias,

Peter,

Goldstein

et al. 2024

Behavioral Sciences

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Fifty years after Feagin’s pioneering 1972 study, we present a systematic review of the measurement of attributions for poverty and economic inequality. We conducted a search for articles published from 1972 to 2023 in APA PsycArticles, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, APA PsycInfo, PSYNDEX Literature with PSYNDEX Tests, and Google Scholar. We used the following English keywords: “poor”, “poverty”, “inequality”, “attribution”, and “attributions” and their equivalents in Spanish. Applying our inclusion and exclusion criteria led to a final sample of 74 articles. We report three main findings. First, the majority of studies classify attributions on the dimensions of individualistic vs. structural. Second, there is a clear tendency to measure attributions for domestic poverty without considering supranational factors or poverty as a global challenge. Third, studies focus almost exclusively on poverty rather than (economic) inequality. We identify potential for future development within the literature, namely, from a domestic to a global perspective, from locus to controllability, and from poverty to inequality.

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Measuring Attributions 50 Years on: From within-Country Poverty to Global Inequality

Bastias,

Peter,

Goldstein

et al. 2024

Behavioral Sciences

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“…Of course, this turns upon the kind of integration which people envisage. While we know little about preferences regarding the balance of authority and responsibilities in social policy between national and EU institutions, recent research has sought to unpack the patterns and drivers of public opinion in this area (Baute and Pellegata, 2023;Reinl et al, 2023). Given that egalitarian citizens may be more supportive of a social Europe (Baute et al, 2019), it would be important to uncover how socioeconomic context factors and policy developments influence their attitudes.…”

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“…In the political arena, this idea has informed opposition to integration and economic governance, especially in the wake of the Great Recession (Burgoon, 2013; Kuhn and Stoeckel, 2014). A number of studies indeed suggest that citizens have blamed the EU for the performance of public services (Kumlin, 2009) or a worsening economic situation during the Eurozone crisis (Baute and Pellegata, 2023; Biten et al, 2023). However, there is no specific evidence that bears on the attribution of blame for (increases in) the level of income inequality, let alone on the connection between such perceptions and EU attitudes.…”

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Unequal perspectives? Income inequality as a benchmark for support for European integration

Eck,

Schreurs

2024

European Union Politics

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Despite growing attention to income inequality in debates about European integration, our understanding of its effect on European Union support remains limited. Using European Social Survey data from 2002 to 2020, we analyse how income inequality and pro-redistribution attitudes shape diffuse and specific forms of support for the European Union. We find no direct effect of country-level income inequality, while individual support for redistribution has a negative effect on both. In line with benchmarking theory, inequality emerges as a contextual moderator: in unequal national settings, egalitarian citizens are comparatively more supportive of further integration than in more equal countries. This effect persists when we control for income position, suggesting an ideological rather than utilitarian basis for benchmarking European Union attitudes. We discuss implications in light of debates about a social Europe.

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European Institutional Integration and the Educational Divide in Support for the European Union

Baute,

Tober

2024

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Since the 1950s, the history of European integration unfolds as a unique social experiment, witnessing the transformation of a non-existent entity into an increasingly institutionalized force. This article delves into the consequences of this ongoing institutionalization on public attitudes towards the institution itself: the European Union (EU). We argue that as European institutional integration advanced, a divide in EU support between more and less educated individuals emerged, with the latter becoming progressively less supportive. Drawing on data from eighty-five waves of the Eurobarometer survey across fifteen countries and over 820,000 individuals from 1976 to 2014, a Bayesian mixed-effects analysis reveals that the gap in support between the more and less educated significantly widened with a country's level of institutional integration. This study emphasizes the necessity of distinguishing institutional effects from temporal patterns in order to enhance our understanding of EU-related public opinion dynamics.

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Multi-level blame attribution and public support for EU welfare policies

Cited by 4 publications

References 55 publications

Measuring Attributions 50 Years on: From within-Country Poverty to Global Inequality

Measuring Attributions 50 Years on: From within-Country Poverty to Global Inequality

Unequal perspectives? Income inequality as a benchmark for support for European integration

European Institutional Integration and the Educational Divide in Support for the European Union

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