Public Opinion Regarding Globalisation: The Kernels of a ‘European Spring’ of Public Discontent?

Balestrini, Pierre P.

doi:10.1080/14747731.2014.957465

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“…Radical political parties play a role in cueing mass attitudes accordingly. However, popular skepticism toward these matters surpass the electoral weight of such parties (Balestrini 2014, 2015, 2016a; Ifop‐AMDLE 2011; Rodrik 2018).…”

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Eu Policy Appraisals and Public Opinion: A Tale of Sophistication and Interdependence?

Balestrini¹

2019

World Affairs

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Although the literature about European Union (EU) public opinion is quite extensive, much of it focuses on general indexes of support for the EU or one specific EU policy area. The study of citizens' appraisal of the EU contribution across socioeconomic policies and its interdependence is uncharted territory. The present article addresses this gap in the research. Using Eurobarometer data, it is demonstrated that national publics tend to be dissatisfied with the EU contribution across policies and that this assessment is consistent and interrelated from one policy to another. Education is found to have only a relatively modest impact on this assessment while the degree of an EU member state's integration in the world economy is not found to sway the latter. The findings finally show that national levels of unemployment, immigration, income dispersion, and the positioning of party leaderships on social redistribution influence public opinion on EU policy input. In the light of these findings, implications are drawn.

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“…Thus, individuals largely across class and education divides tend to be worried about crime and mass immigration (Balestrini 2016a, 2016b). Citizens are critical of the EU inclination toward economic and cultural globalization, often independently of education and class differences (Balestrini 2014, 2015; Rodrik 2018).…”

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Eu Policy Appraisals and Public Opinion: A Tale of Sophistication and Interdependence?

Balestrini¹

2019

World Affairs

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“…This is a question which probes support for European integration, the EU, and its bodies in general, that Kaulman and Koós (2014) classified in the ‘volitional/pragmatic dimension’, and that includes both affective and utilitarian elements. However, several authors have underlined the need to rely on various indicators when analysing political support in general and support for the EU in particular (for example Balestrini, 2015). In this regard, the so‐called ‘benefit’ question of the Eurobarometer has been frequently considered.…”

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The Impact of Cohesion Policy on Regional Differences in Support for the European Union*

López‐Bazo

2021

J of Common Market Studies

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Cohesion Policy is a core policy of the European Union, the main objective of which is to address uneven economic growth across the EU by promoting balanced and sustainable development.Given its characteristics, it certainly has a great impact on the daily life of European citizens and can compensate population groups and places less favoured by the implementation of the internal market and economic and monetary union. As a result, Cohesion Policy is expected to shape regional support for European integration. This study tests this assumption using regional data for the EU-28 in a period that includes the recent phases of expansion and recession, in a scenario characterized by growing anti-EU rhetoric. The results suggest that a greater amount of EU funds spent in the region does not stimulate support for the Union. However, an appropriate temporal distribution of the resources allocated to the region could have a positive effect. Keywords: cohesion policy; attitudes towards the EU; structural funds; EU regions *This paper is a result of the PERCEIVE project, funded by the EC under the call H2020-REFLECTIVE-SOCIETY-2015. Grant Agreement number: 693529. I thank colleagues of the PERCEIVE team, particularly Vicente Royuela, for useful discussions, and the reviewers and the editor-in-chief for constructive suggestions and encouragement. 1 Bachtler et al. (2013) and Bache (2014) provide a comprehensive description of EU Cohesion Policy.

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“…The state of public opinion in a society can influence people's decision-making process in the event of an emergency. Public opinion is an attitude or a behavioral response exhibited by an objective thing, which plays a role of bridge in the process of balance and imbalance (Sysoeva et al, 2009;Balestrini, 2015). Hence, when a person is in a positive public opinion atmosphere, it means that that current environment balances his demands (Chen et al, 2015).…”

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Cognitive Decision-making and Public Opinions

Wang¹

2018

Neuroquantology

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The influence of public opinions on emergency decision-making has attracted more and more attention in recent years. Emergency decision-making is characterized by high risk, fuzzy information and time pressure. Public opinions induced by emergency have important influence on people's decision-making preference. Based on the four induced conditions, including positive public opinion, neutral public opinion, negative public opinion and public opinion induced by emergent situations, this paper studies the brain evoked potential information of subjects and proposes a new intuitive decision-making model. The results show that the average scores of the positive opinion group on the positive scale are significantly different, while the scores of the negative opinion group on the negative scale are significantly different. Participants in group of public opinion induced by emergent situations tend to be more adventurous in their decision-making preferences than those in the negative public opinion group. The results of brain information processing of neutral, positive and negative public opinion groups show that both the standard stimulus and deviant stimulus could induce obvious negative deflection in 100-200ms in EEG. In the processing the information induced by emergent situations, amplitude deviation between the standard stimulus and deviant stimulus is smaller, which is perceived as insensitive.

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Public Opinion Regarding Globalisation: The Kernels of a ‘European Spring’ of Public Discontent?

Cited by 7 publications

References 24 publications

Eu Policy Appraisals and Public Opinion: A Tale of Sophistication and Interdependence?

Eu Policy Appraisals and Public Opinion: A Tale of Sophistication and Interdependence?

The Impact of Cohesion Policy on Regional Differences in Support for the European Union*

Cognitive Decision-making and Public Opinions

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