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- Bauhr, Monika, 1973, et al.
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Europe around the corner? How border proximity and quality of government explains European identity
- 2023
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Ingår i: European Union Politics. - 1465-1165 .- 1741-2757. ; 25:2, s. 376-395
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Do citizens that live close to the border of another European country feel more European? We suggest that border proximity affects European identity formation, but that the positive effect of border proximity is confined largely to areas where citizens live close to regions with better quality of government and lower levels of corruption. Using our newly collected individual level and post-coded data from the most recent wave of the European Quality of Government survey, covering over 129,000 respondents in all 27 European Union member countries, we show that citizens that live close to the border of another country express a stronger European identity, all things being equal. Yet the effect is driven largely by citizens that live adjacent to regions with relatively higher/lower quality of government compared to their own region. Our study thereby contributes to a closer understanding of where and why citizens become attached to Europe, and if and how benchmarking institutional performance and quality of government affect citizens’ willingness to belong to, and identify with, Europe.
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- Bauhr, Monika, 1973, et al.
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Why support International redistribution? Corruption and public support for aid in the eurozone
- 2018
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Ingår i: European Union Politics. - : SAGE Publications. - 1465-1165 .- 1741-2757. ; 19:2, s. 233-254
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- What factors explain public support for international redistribution? While the European Union has sent billions of taxpayers’ money to over indebted euro countries in an attempt to avoid an economic collapse, these transfers have encountered fierce resistance among both donor and recipient constituents. However, we know surpris- ingly little about why citizens support or oppose redistribution within the EU. This paper suggests that domestic levels of corruption and institutional quality may be one of the most important explanations for the great variation in public support for financial assistance, bailouts and aid. Using recent European Elections Survey data merged with data on regional level quality of government, we show that the effects of institutional quality are consistently stronger than macro-economic factors, including economic development, inequality or levels of public debt. We find strong evidence that citizens in low corrupt contexts are more likely to support financial assistance to fellow member states. The results have implications for future challenges in securing public support for EU economic integration as well as for our understanding of how and why corruption undermines society’s collective action capacity.
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- Bovens, Luc, et al.
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Measuring common standards and equal responsibility-sharing in EU asylum outcome data
- 2012
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Ingår i: European Union Politics. - : SAGE Publications. - 1465-1165 .- 1741-2757. ; 13:1, s. 70-93
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We construct novel measures to assess (i) the extent to which European Union member states are using common standards in recognizing asylum seekers and (ii) the extent to which the responsibilities for asylum applications, acceptances and refugee populations are equally shared among the member states, taking into account population size, gross domestic product (GDP) and GDP expressed in purchasing power parity (GDP-PPP). We track the progression of these measures since the implementation of the Treaty of Amsterdam (1999). These measures display divergent trends and we try to provide an interpretation of the dynamics that are constitutive of these trends.
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- Bäck, Hanna, et al.
(författare)
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Does European Integration Lead to a 'Presidentialization' of Executive Politics? : Ministerial Selection in Swedish Postwar Cabinets
- 2009
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Ingår i: European Union Politics. - London : SAGE Publications. - 1465-1165 .- 1741-2757. ; 10:2, s. 226-252
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, we address recent claims that executive legislative relations in parliamentary democracies are undergoing important changes owing to either a 'presidentialization' or a 'Europeanization' of domestic political systems. Therefore, we test empirically whether parliamentary democracies are indeed experiencing changes in executive-legislative relations and whether these developments can, in part, be explained by an increase in European integration. Using data on ministerial selection in Swedish cabinets during the years 1952-2006, we find that there appears to be a slight tendency towards 'presidentialization', which is indicated by a decrease in ministers with a parliamentary background being appointed, and that there exists some support for the notion that Sweden's political and economic integration into the European Union is part of the explanation for this change.
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- Chalmers, Adam William, et al.
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Fiscal redistribution and public support for European integration
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Ingår i: European Union Politics. - 1465-1165 .- 1741-2757. ; :16:3, s. 386-407
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article contributes to existing debates on public opinion towards European integration by examining when and why fiscal transfers and public support are systematically related. Drawing on economic and identity-related theories, we develop and test hypotheses about the links between EU fiscal transfers among countries and subnational jurisdictions, and citizens’ support for European integration. Using a three-level analysis of residents in 143 regions in 16 EU member states, we find a positive effect of EU transfers among both countries and subnational jurisdictions on support for European integration among those with a European communal identity. We also find that this effect increases the more politically aware individuals are. The article sketches the broader implications of our findings for public opinion research on regional integration beyond the European Union.
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- Chalmers, Adam William, et al.
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Fiscal redistribution and public support for European integration
- 2015
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Ingår i: European Union Politics. - : SAGE Publications. - 1465-1165 .- 1741-2757. ; 16:3, s. 386-407
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article contributes to existing debates on public opinion toward European integration by examining when and why fiscal transfers and public support are systematically related. Drawing on economic and identity-related theories, we develop and test hypotheses about the links between European Union fiscal transfers among countries and subnational jurisdictions, and citizens' support for European integration. Using a three-level analysis of residents in 143 regions in 16 European Union member states, we find a positive effect of European Union transfers among both countries and subnational jurisdictions on support for European integration among those with a European communal identity. We also find that this effect increases the more politically aware individuals are. The article sketches the broader implications of our findings for public opinion research on regional integration beyond the European Union.
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- Charron, Nicholas
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Explaining the allocation of regional Structural Funds: The conditional effect of governance and self-rule
- 2016
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Ingår i: European Union Politics. - : SAGE Publications. - 1465-1165 .- 1741-2757. ; 17:4, s. 638-659
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- What regional factors can explain the heterogeneity in Structural Funds distribution to European Union regions? Past studies have shown that aside from the level of economic development and rates of unemployment, other political, and economic factors systematically explain why certain European Union regions receive greater funding than others, in particular where there is room for bargaining. In this article, a novel theory is posited which argues that the determination of Structural Funds is based on an interaction between a region's formal institutions (the level of a regional autonomy) and informal institutions (its level of quality of government). In cases of low regional autonomy, member states and European Union level actors prefer to allocate greater levels of Funds to regions with lower quality of government in order to increase cohesion. Yet in cases of high regional autonomy, risks associated with absorption failure in lower capacity regions lead states to strategically allocate greater levels of transfers to regions with higher quality of government. The theory is tested on data for 171 European Union regions for the 2007-2013 budget period. The results show robust empirical support for the theoretical claims.
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- Dellmuth, Lisa Maria, et al.
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Distributive politics and intergovernmental transfers : The local allocation of European Union structural funds
- 2012
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Ingår i: European Union Politics. - : SAGE Publications. - 1465-1165 .- 1741-2757. ; 13:3, s. 413-433
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The European Union budget is distributed primarily in the form of intergovernmental grants to sub-state governments, which invest the grants in local projects. Transfers are allocated under the auspices of the European structural funds. This article assesses the causal links between electoral incentives on the recipient side, European funding goals, and local grant allocation. Tobit regressions of the allocation patterns in 419 local districts in Germany for the period 2000–6 suggest the following: although recipient sub-state governments enjoy substantial discretion in selecting projects, their distributive choices are largely in accord with European goals. As theoretically predicted, however, there is robust evidence that sub-state governments’ electoral concerns distort the local allocation of structural funds.
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- Hooghe, Liesbet, et al.
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The Russian threat and the consolidation of the West: How populism and EU-skepticism shape party support for Ukraine
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Ingår i: European Union Politics. - 1465-1165.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Support for Ukraine against Russian aggression has been strong across Europe, but it is far from uniform. An expert survey of the positions taken by political parties in 29 countries conducted mid-2023 reveals that 97 of 269 parties reject one or more of the following: providing weapons, hosting refugees, supporting Ukraine's path to European Union membership, or accepting higher energy costs. Where the perceived threat from Russia is most severe, we find the greatest levels of support for Ukraine. However, ideology appears to be far more influential. The level of a party's populist rhetoric and its European Union skepticism explain the bulk of variation in support for Ukraine despite our finding that many strongly populist and European Union-skeptical parties take moderate pro-Ukraine positions when in government.
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- Huhe, N., et al.
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Don't cry for me Britannia: The resilience of the European Union to Brexit
- 2020
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Ingår i: European Union Politics. - : SAGE Publications. - 1465-1165 .- 1741-2757. ; 21:1, s. 152-172
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We assess the impact of the United Kingdom's 2016 decision to leave the European Union on the Council of the European Union, where Brexit is likely to have the clearest observable implications. Using concepts and models from the spatial model of politics and network analysis, we formulate and test expectations regarding the effects of Brexit. We examine two of the most prominent datasets on recent decision-making in the European Union, which include data on cooperation networks among member states before and after the 2016 referendum. Our findings identify some of the political challenges that Brexit will bring, but also highlight the factors that are already helping the European Union's remaining member states to adapt to Brexit.
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