2013
DOI: 10.1177/1465116513491018
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In Europe we trust? Exploring three logics of trust in the European Union

Abstract: This study develops and tests three explanations of trust in the European Union. Following the logic of rationality, trust originates from evaluations about the (actual and perceived) performances and procedures of the European Union. Trust within the logic of identity trust depends on citizens' emotional attachments to the European Union. According to the logic of extrapolation, trust is an extension of national trust and therefore unrelated to the European Union itself. We test these explanations and their i… Show more

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“…The question of public support towards European integration has been the subject of a great deal of scholarly attention (Eichenberg and Dalton, 1993;Gabel, 1998b;Harteveld et al, 2013;Marks, 2004, 2005;Karp et al, 2003;Maier et al, 2012). Importantly, much of this research turns on a central theoretical debate regarding the determinants of support.…”
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“…The question of public support towards European integration has been the subject of a great deal of scholarly attention (Eichenberg and Dalton, 1993;Gabel, 1998b;Harteveld et al, 2013;Marks, 2004, 2005;Karp et al, 2003;Maier et al, 2012). Importantly, much of this research turns on a central theoretical debate regarding the determinants of support.…”
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“…In this article, we argue that important questions left open in these two lines of theory concern the mechanisms linking fiscal redistribution through the EU and public support for European integration. Is the association between fiscal transfers and support owing to political predispositions such as identity (Anderson and Reichert, 1995;Harteveld et al, 2013;Hooghe and Marks, 2005;Karp et al, 2003)? How do existing individual identities filter information about fiscal transfers and, in turn, affect the link between transfers and support for European integration?…”
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“…States since the early 2000s, including in some of those which are official candidates for membership (Toshkov, Kortenska, Dimitrova and Fagan 2014), and considering that national political parties with Eurosceptic sentiments having been reaping electoral gains (Harteveld, van der Meer and De Vries 2013), this may present quite a task. Some research shows that European citizens trust EU institutions more than they do their own national institutions (Eurobarometer 2014), while others note that the EU is "facing its worst crisis of confidence" (Jovanović 2013).…”
Section: Trustmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Some research, however, suggests that people's trust in the EU is rather an extrapolation of their trust in their national authorities. According to Harteveld et al (2013), a citizen's 'national' trust was a stronger predictor of his or her trust in the EU than trust based on perceived performance of the EU and trust based on identity or emotional attachment to the EU.…”
Section: Trustmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Individuals' attitudes towards the specific institutions comprising the EU are therefore muddled. Only a few analyses have corrected for this by focusing on the EU Budget and Public Opinion EU as an institution (Harteveld, van der Meer, & De Vries, 2013). An individual with strong conceptions about democratic representation might have a positive image of the European Parliament and its national government, as elected bodies, but a negative one of the bureaucratic European Commission.…”
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confidence: 99%