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A blessing and a curse? Examining public preferences for differentiated integration
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Abstract This study examines public preferences for two forms of differentiated integration (DI): opt-outs and multi-speed EU. Due to the low salience of DI in domestic politics, we suggest that people use ideological benchmarks when forming opinions about DI mostly relating to their general predispositions ... mehr
This study examines public preferences for two forms of differentiated integration (DI): opt-outs and multi-speed EU. Due to the low salience of DI in domestic politics, we suggest that people use ideological benchmarks when forming opinions about DI mostly relating to their general predispositions towards the EU. While pro-EU citizens are more in favor of DI in the form of multiple speeds as this might pose a solution to overcome gridlock, Euroskeptic citizens display more support for opt-outs as a means to accommodate concerns about national identity and control. These differences are in turn accentuated by people’s left-right ideology. We test our hypotheses using public opinion data from the Eurobarometer between 2004 and 2018 and complete it with novel survey data. Our results suggest that while support for DI has increased in recent years, DI preferences largely coincide with ideological predispositions. Our findings indicate that rather than overcoming preference heterogeneity within the EU, DI might entrench existing fault lines.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Eurobarometer; EU; europäische Integration; EU-Staat; öffentliche Meinung; Innenpolitik; Meinungsbildung
Klassifikation
Europapolitik
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
differentiated integration; EU support; public opinion; Eurobarometer 2004-2018
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2022
Seitenangabe
S. 143-163
Zeitschriftentitel
European Union Politics, 24 (2022) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/14651165221133671
ISSN
1741-2757
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)