Post-Maastricht Blues: The Transformation of Citizen Support for European Integration, 1973–2004

Eichenberg, Richard C.; Dalton, Russell J.

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“…Besides the explanatory approaches discussed above, Eichenberg and Dalton (2007) argue that redistributive concerns are crucial for attitudes toward the EU. There is evidence that European economic and political integration is one important driver of an increase in income inequality (Beckfield 2006(Beckfield , 2009 and that the increase in income inequality is negatively associated with public support for EU integration (Burgoon 2013;Kuhn et al 2014).…”

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Euroskepticism, Income Inequality and Financial Expectations

Ritzen¹,

Wehner²,

Zimmermann

2015

The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis &Amp; Policy

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Before the Great Recession, the rising income inequality within the "old" European Union has been suggested as an important driver of the increase in Euroskepticism. We revisit this finding for the 27 EU member states from 2006 to 2011, introducing individual negative financial expectations as a further driving factor. We also distinguish between Western and Eastern European countries. In the period of Eastern EU enlargement after 2005, Euroskepticism increased by one third while income inequality on average remained stable.

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Section: Previous Findingsmentioning

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Euroskepticism, Income Inequality and Financial Expectations

Ritzen¹,

Wehner²,

Zimmermann

2015

The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis &Amp; Policy

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“…Blues" (Eichenberg and Dalton, 2007) kicked in. Mudde (2012) distinguishes between two main strands in this literature: the "North Carolina school", which clusters around the Chapel Hill dataset, and the "Sussex school", which chiefly relies on case studies of party manifestos.…”

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The AfD: Finally a Successful Right-Wing Populist Eurosceptic Party for Germany?

Arzheimer¹

2015

West European Politics

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Within less than two years of being founded by disgruntled members of the governing CDU, the newly-formed Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has already performed extraordinary well in the 2013 General election, the 2014 EP election, and a string of state elections. Highly unusually by German standards, it campaigned for an end to all efforts to save the Euro and argued for a re-configuration of Germany's foreign policy. This seems to chime with the recent surge in far right voting in Western Europe, and the AfD was subsequently described as right-wing populist and europhobe.On the basis of the party's manifesto and of hundreds of statements the party has posted on the internet, this article demonstrates that the AfD does indeed occupy a position at the far-right of the German party system, but it is currently neither populist nor does it belong to the family of Radical Right parties. Moreover, its stance on European Integration is more nuanced than expected and should best be classified as soft eurosceptic.Germany is unusual amongst West European countries because all relevant parties (with the possible exception of the Left party) are unwavering supporters of European integration. Moreover, while the Radical Right is now a permanent feature a of many European democracies, the electoral successes of Germany's Radical Right parties have been very modest and confined to the subnational level.

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“…This became painfully evident through the rejections of the Constitutional Treaty in popular referendums in France and the Netherlands. While the integration process has motored full speed ahead, citizens throughout the European Union (EU) have become increasingly weary of the project (De Vries and Van Kersbergen 2007;Eichenberg and Dalton 2007). Although several studies demonstrate that political elites are actively monitoring their constituents (Carrubba 2001;Steenbergen et al 2007), we witness a Europe that is divided: on average political elites have been much more in favor of European integration than their citizens (Hooghe 2003).…”

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How Democracy Works : Political Representation and Policy Congruence in Modern Societies

Rosema¹,

Denters²,

Aarts³

2011

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DemocracyCover design and layout: Maedium, Utrecht All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the written permission of both the copyright owners and the authors of the book. PrefaceThere are many good reasons to present a book on the functioning of representative democracy at this precise moment. But the true reason for its creation is a special event of a personal nature: the formal retirement of Jacques Thomassen at the University of Twente. In his long and impressive academic career Jacques Thomassen has greatly contributed to the study of democracy. He has authored and edited several influential academic works, which already started with one of his first articles in 1976, entitled "Party identification as a cross-national concept," which is still considered to be a classic in the literature on voting behavior. His publications since include many books in both Dutch and English, often published by the leading academic publishers in political science. His reputation as an editor of books is almost unrivalled in political science. But there is much more. Jacques Thomassen has played a vital role in the development of major national and international data collection projects about political institutions, such as the Dutch Parliamentary Election Studies, Dutch Parliament Studies, Comparative Study of Electoral Systems and the European Election Studies. The data that are still generated on the basis of these collaborative projects provide a most valuable source of information for the study of democracy -without it researchers would arguably not be able to adequately study the functioning of democracy -and thus form one of the most important developments in the last decades in political science. This Liber Amicorum serves to honour Jacques Thomassen for his extremely valuable contribution to the study of democracy. In his career he has collaborated with dozens of academics from many countries. They have learned to know Jacques Thomassen as a most competent and erudite scholar and a good colleague; and many enjoy the privilege of being amongst the many friends that he has made over these years. This volume is a collection of essays by some of these colleagues and friends. In planning this volume, we had to be very restrictive, and as a result many colleagues who would have liked to contribute to this book could not be taken on board. The final set of essays demonstrate the appreciation of the authors for Jacques Thomassen by bringing together in this volume some of their very best and fresh work on the theme that has been at the heart of his research agenda: the functioning of representative democracy. Together, these contributions provide the most up-to-date assessment of how democracy works in the world of today. The contributions in this volume have been created in the spi...

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Post-Maastricht Blues: The Transformation of Citizen Support for European Integration, 1973–2004

Cited by 285 publications

References 26 publications

Euroskepticism, Income Inequality and Financial Expectations

Euroskepticism, Income Inequality and Financial Expectations

The AfD: Finally a Successful Right-Wing Populist Eurosceptic Party for Germany?

How Democracy Works : Political Representation and Policy Congruence in Modern Societies

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