Another chance? Concerns about inequality, support for the European Union and further European integration

Simpson, Kathryn; Loveless, Matthew

doi:10.1080/13501763.2016.1170872

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“…Value-based explanations are necessarily based on a cognitive approach, as they do not explain EU support using objective external variables, such as economic interest in free trade, but focus rather on subjective perceptions of the EU. A value-based approach can provide different political reasons for supporting or rejecting the EU, including support for democracy, concerns regarding inequality (Simpson, Loveless, 2017), attitudes toward democratic regimes, capitalism, and political partisanship (Rohrschneider and Whitefield, 2006).…”

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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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Section: Value-based Explanationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Jayet

2020

J of Common Market Studies

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“…Therefore, the economic and financial crisis of 2007/8 has affected support for the EU and further European integration. The findings here demonstrate show that there is a widespread concern about inequality and the role of the EU (lower support for the EU as it is) as well as optimism for the EU project (support for further European integration) following the economic and financial crisis (Simpson & Loveless, 2017).…”

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What to do about inequality? Public opinion support for the European Union and further European integration in the Republic of Ireland

Simpson

2018

Irish Political Studies

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This paper investigates individual's perceptions of inequality and the impact this has on mass public opinion support for the European Union (EU) in the Republic of Ireland. This question is posed in the context of the onset of the economic and financial crisis of 2007/8 as the crisis can be regarded as a critical juncture in Ireland's relationship with the EU as a result of the economic downturn and the widening of economic disparities individuals have experienced. Ireland is a critical case in examining EU support as since its accession to the EU in 1973 it is often considered an exemplar of what the EU could offer small member states with a strongly pro-integrationist mass public. Using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) multiple regression analysis on 2009 European Election Study (EES) data, this paper shows that individuals' concerns about inequality lowers support for the EU as it is currently constituted, but increases support for continued European integration. This suggests that individual-levels of support may be in a precarious state, yet they can be salvaged as individuals in Ireland regard the EU as the institutional-driving force to address marketgenerated inequality.

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“…Utilitarian accounts suggest that the costs and benefits of European integration are distributed asymmetrically across the European population (Gabel, 1998). Accordingly, whether citizens win or lose from integration shapes their opinions on the EU (Hobolt, 2014;Simpson and Loveless, 2017). Indeed, a number of studies indicate that inequality does affect preferences towards EU integration.…”

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“…Research on redistributive preferences in the EU's multi-level system has demonstrated that economic inequality shapes citizens' opinions of fiscal institutions (Beramendi, 2012). Moreover, increasing income inequality has strengthened Euroscepticism over the past decades (Hakhverdian et al, 2013;Kuhn et al, 2016;Simpson and Loveless, 2017). Inequality's effects further translate into the electoral arena, as supranational redistribution and regional inequalities can drive Eurosceptic voting (Schraff, 2019a).…”

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Is the Member States' Curse the EU's Blessing? Inequality and EU Regime Evaluation

Schraff

2020

J of Common Market Studies

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How does inequality shape regime evaluations in Europe's multi‐level governance system? I argue that rising inequality improves citizens' evaluation of the EU's political system. This effect is driven by two mechanisms. First, adverse social and political consequences of inequality within national democracies strongly erode national regime evaluations. This leads to an improvement of EU regime evaluations in relative terms. Second, citizens compensate negative national conditions by redirecting hopes to the supranational level. This compensation mechanisms further tilts regime evaluates in favour of the EU. An empirical analysis of change in national and European parliament trust across 27 member states and 14 years provides empirical support for this argument. It also shows that the two mechanisms coexist and that their relevance is conditioned by previous levels of regime support.

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Another chance? Concerns about inequality, support for the European Union and further European integration

Cited by 24 publications

References 40 publications

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

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

What to do about inequality? Public opinion support for the European Union and further European integration in the Republic of Ireland

Is the Member States' Curse the EU's Blessing? Inequality and EU Regime Evaluation

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