The Role of Human Values in Explaining Support for European Union Membership

Dennison, James; Seddig, Daniel; Davidov, Eldad

doi:10.1177/00220221211005082

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“…Nevertheless, Akaliyski’s study, as well as Vignoles et al (2018), suggest that such a shared culture may be nascent across the members of the Union, although it may take a long time for it to take a distinct shape. Vice-versa, Dennison et al (2021) find that values predict attitudes toward European integration: universalist values support European Union membership whereas conservation values oppose it. Thus, cultural and political integration seem to be in a complex two-way relationship.…”

Section: Ethnolinguistic Culture Versus National Culturementioning

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Economic Development and Modernization in Africa Homogenize National Cultures

Minkov

Kaasa

Welzel

2021

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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The nation-building literature of the early 1960s argued that decolonized countries need to overcome pre-colonial ethnic identities and generate national cultures. Africa is the most critical test case of this aspect of modernization theory as it has by far the largest ethnolinguistic fractionalization. We use data from the Afrobarometer to compare the cultures of 85 ethnolinguistic groups, each represented by at least 100 respondents, from 25 African countries. We compared these groups and their nations on items that address cultural modernization and emancipation: ideologies concerning inclusive-exclusive society (gender egalitarianism, homophobia, and xenophobia), submissiveness to authority, and the societal role of religion. Previous research has shown that these are some of the most important markers of cultural differences in the modern world. Hierarchical cluster analysis yielded very homogeneous national clusters and not a single ethnolinguistic cluster cutting across national borders (such as Yoruba of Benin and Yoruba of Nigeria, Ewe of Ghana, and Ewe of Togo, etc.). Only three ethnolinguistic groups (3.5%) remained unattached to their national cluster, regardless of the clustering method. The variation between nations ( F values) was often considerably greater than the variation between ethnolinguistic groups. Medial distances between the groups of each country correlated highly with GDP per person ( r = −.54), percentage men employed in agriculture ( r = .64), percentage men employed in services ( r = −.63), and phone subscriptions per person ( r = −.61). In conclusion, economic development and modernization diminish cultural differences between ethnolinguistic groups within nations, highlighting those between them.

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Section: Ethnolinguistic Culture Versus National Culturementioning

confidence: 85%

Economic Development and Modernization in Africa Homogenize National Cultures

Minkov

Kaasa

Welzel

2021

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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“…We included the “abstain” option to avoid forcing participants to report a defined voting intention. However, to test our hypotheses regarding EU-leave voting intention, we excluded “abstain” responses ( n = 106) (see Dennison et al, 2021). We coded the remaining responses as “Remain = 1”, “Leave = 2”.…”

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“…However, multicategorical dependent variables pose a statistical challenge in the models we test. Thus, we decided to dichotomise this variable by excluding abstainers (Dennison et al, 2021). Nevertheless, the meaning and implications of our results remained the same when using the dichotomous or the multicategorical variable.…”

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The use of identity-related frames in electoral pledges and its effects on Euroscepticism in France and Germany

Bogado

Bytzek

Steffens

2023

European Union Politics

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National identification strength is a key Euroscepticism driver. We examine how politicians’ framing of immigration policies increases the salience of different national identity representations and its relationship with support for the European Union (EU) in a two-waves between-subject survey-experiment using French and German samples. As predicted, exposure to assimilation frames (directly for the French sample or via frame perception for both samples) increased the salience of ethnocultural national identity representations. Additionally, as hypothesised, higher ethnocultural representations salience following assimilation frames exposure was related to higher Euroscepticism. However, feeling emotionally attached to the EU reduced this negative impact of ethnocultural national identity representations on EU attitudes. We discuss the role of ethnocultural nationalism in Euroscepticism and the importance of fostering stronger emotional ties to the EU.

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“…We test whether public support for the EU-wide establishment of a social welfare scheme depends not only on political attitudes but also on the more fundamental basic human values of the respondents. The relevance of such human values has already been established for other fields of policy preferences Dennison et al 2020Dennison et al , 2021Schwartz 2016;Sedig and Davidov 2018;Swedlow 2008;Raijman et al 2022).…”

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Basic Human Values and Preferences for an EU‐Wide Social Benefit Scheme

Reinl

Seddig

Dennison

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J of Common Market Studies

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Previous explanations regarding transnational solidarity in the European Union (EU) have mainly focussed on factors including left–right self‐placement, support for European integration and European identity. We expand this model by considering deeper psychological determinants of transnational solidarity: values, operationalised as Schwartz's basic human values of universalism and security. We expect them to exert (1) direct effects on transnational solidarity – measured as support for pan‐European social benefits – and (2) indirect effects via the three aforementioned factors. We test and find evidence to support our theoretical framework using multigroup structural equation modelling and data from the European Social Survey. We further show that the effect size of the value of universalism on preferences for an EU social benefit scheme in each country is positively moderated by that country's net contribution to the EU budget, highlighting the interaction between material interests and psychological value motivations.

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The Role of Human Values in Explaining Support for European Union Membership

Cited by 10 publications

References 57 publications

Economic Development and Modernization in Africa Homogenize National Cultures

Economic Development and Modernization in Africa Homogenize National Cultures

The use of identity-related frames in electoral pledges and its effects on Euroscepticism in France and Germany

Basic Human Values and Preferences for an EU‐Wide Social Benefit Scheme

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