The blue map of Europe: Conservative parliamentarians and European integration

Baker, David; Fountain, Imogen; Gamble, Andrew; Ludlam, Steve

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“…6. The argument of this article builds on our earlier research findings which suggested that the split between interdependence and sovereignty is a crucial ideological dimension in accounting for the attitudes of national political elites (Baker et al 1993a(Baker et al , 1993b(Baker et al , 1994(Baker et al , 1996(Baker et al and 2000. 7.…”

Section: Modern British Conservatism and Hyperglobalismmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…Questionnaires were anonymous but MPs could return a separate identitycoded postcard which enabled us to test against known party groupings and ideological categories. All in all, taking into account the controversial nature of the issues covered, we believe we obtained a satisfactory degree of representativeness from the tests we deployed (see Baker et al 1996 and. 8.…”

Section: Modern British Conservatism and Hyperglobalismmentioning

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Sovereign Nations and Global Markets: Modern British Conservatism and Hyperglobalism

Baker

Gamble

Seawright

2002

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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In this article we seek to trace through the major stands of British Euroscepticism and concentrate, in particular, on the importance of a powerful 'hyperglobalist' Eurosceptical strand within British Conservatism. We investigate the British Conservatives' recent divisions over European integration, against the background of the party's increasingly marginal status in British party politics. The piece also draws on findings from two recent surveys of the attitudes of British parliamentarians to European integration, carried out by the Members of Parliament Project for the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). We explore how Conservative divisions of opinion are related in part to particular understandings of globalisation and regionalisation and attempt to show how globalist ideology has unexpectedly re-emphasised and bolstered the traditional nationalism of the Tory party and caused an increasingly hostile attitude amongst many British Conservatives towards the European project as it is presently constituted. We also examine recent attempts to map British Conservative Euroscepticism on to continental varieties using a mixture of ideological positioning and party system (Taggart 1998), arguing that this ignores the extent to which British Eurosceptics advance unique (in EU member state terms) hyperglobalist (rather than isolationist or protectionist) arguments in objecting to further European integration.

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Section: Modern British Conservatism and Hyperglobalismmentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: Modern British Conservatism and Hyperglobalismmentioning

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Sovereign Nations and Global Markets: Modern British Conservatism and Hyperglobalism

Baker

Gamble

Seawright

2002

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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“…The Conservative MPs are split into 1959-74 and 1979-92, whilst Labour are split into 1950-83 and 1987 There can be little doubt that in general terms the MPP team are right: there obviously is a cohort effect at work. Baker and Seawright (1998b) examined the responses to 14 key statements about European integration.…”

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“…On this question, then, it appears as if the choice of 1983 as the cut-off date is not the right choice; the change in attitudes appears to have come about after 1979, not after 1983. Table 3, which repeats this exercise for the 14 questions utilized by Baker and Seawright (1998b), and for a series of different cut-off dates, shows the inter-cohort difference in the percentage agreeing with the statement. 4 The first column (1974) reports the difference between the data for the cohort 1950-74 compared to 1979-92; the second column (1979) shows the difference between 1950-79 and 1983-92; and so on.…”

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British Parliamentarians and European Integration

Cowley¹

2000

Party Politics

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This note re-examines the survey data gathered by the Members of Parliament Project (MPP) on the attitudes of British parliamentarians towards European integration. Central to the analysis of the MPP is the idea that within the parties there is at work a dramatic cohort effect: long-serving Labour MPs are Eurosceptic, but the more recently elected Labour MPs are pro-European; whilst long-serving Conservative MPs are pro-European, but the more recently elected are Eurosceptic. The MPP have argued that this cohort effect began at different times in each

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Question Time: Questionnaires and Maastricht

Blair

1999

Politics

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One of the most significant questions facing researchers engaged in contemporary history is the use of sources. These might include archival, oral, visual, electronic or printed sources. The particular mix employed will depend on the topic covered and the amount of time and money available to conduct the work. This article reviews both the importance and limitation of questionnaires for examining contemporary history in light of the advice provided in methodological texts.

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The blue map of Europe: Conservative parliamentarians and European integration

Cited by 7 publications

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Sovereign Nations and Global Markets: Modern British Conservatism and Hyperglobalism

Sovereign Nations and Global Markets: Modern British Conservatism and Hyperglobalism

British Parliamentarians and European Integration

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