Reasonable Europeans: Determinants of citizens&#039; support for the delegation of competencies in 29 countries

Dr. Thomas Christin

doi:10.5771/9783845210919

Summary

Die Unterstützung der Bevölkerung für die Übertragung nationaler Kompetenzen an Europa steht im Zentrum dieses Werkes. Der Autor untersucht diese für die europäische Integration wichtige Thematik mit Hilfe von aktuellen Umfrage- und länderspezifischen Daten aus 29 EU-Mitglieds- und Kandidatenländern. Diese innovative Studie zeigt auf, wie ein affektiver Faktor (Identifikation) und ein utilitaristischer Faktor (Qualität der Governance) die Bereitschaft der Bevölkerung zur Delegation von Kompetenzen an die EU beeinflussen.

Das Buch veranschaulicht das grosse Potenzial, das der weniger starre utilitaristische Faktor sowohl für die künftige Entwicklung der EU als auch generell für föderale Systeme birgt.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2008
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8329-3561-0
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8452-1091-9
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Nomos Universitätsschriften - Politik
Volume: 153
Language: English
Pages: 138
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 2 - 12 Thomas Christin
1. From the European idea to the European Union No access Pages 13 - 21 Thomas Christin
2. Public support and opposition to European integration over time No access Pages 21 - 24 Thomas Christin
3. Importance of public opinion No access Pages 24 - 29 Thomas Christin
4. Structure of the book No access Pages 29 - 30 Thomas Christin
1. 1. Economic explanations No access Pages 31 - 34 Thomas Christin
  2. Political explanations No access Pages 34 - 36 Thomas Christin
  3. Identity-based explanations No access Pages 36 - 37 Thomas Christin
2. General framework: delegation and accountability No access Pages 37 - 42 Thomas Christin
3. Orientation towards political systems: conceptualisation No access Pages 42 - 44 Thomas Christin
4. Cases and datasets No access Pages 44 - 45 Thomas Christin
5. Summary No access Pages 45 - 46 Thomas Christin
1. Attitudes towards the scope of EU-level decision-making for specific policy domains No access Pages 47 - 49 Thomas Christin
2. Cross-policy variations No access Pages 49 - 54 Thomas Christin
3. Cross-national variations No access Pages 54 - 56 Thomas Christin
4. Building a scale of support for EU-level decision-making: a generalised latent variable model No access Pages 56 - 59 Thomas Christin
5. Summary No access Pages 59 - 60 Thomas Christin
1. 1. Political explanations No access Pages 61 - 63 Thomas Christin
  2. Identity explanations No access Pages 63 - 64 Thomas Christin
  3. Alternative explanations No access Pages 64 - 68 Thomas Christin
2. 1. Governance quality No access Pages 68 - 71 Thomas Christin
  2. Nationalism No access Pages 71 - 72 Thomas Christin
3. Multivariate analysis No access Pages 72 - 76 Thomas Christin
4. Summary No access Pages 76 - 76 Thomas Christin
1. Hypotheses at the individual level No access Pages 77 - 78 Thomas Christin
2. Typology of support No access Pages 78 - 80 Thomas Christin
3. 1. Orientation towards political systems: political and identity factors No access Pages 80 - 84 Thomas Christin
  2. Other forms of identity No access Pages 84 - 84 Thomas Christin
  3. Control variables No access Pages 84 - 87 Thomas Christin
4. 1. Models No access Pages 87 - 92 Thomas Christin
  2. Predictions on the typology of support No access Pages 92 - 94 Thomas Christin
  3. Control variables No access Pages 94 - 95 Thomas Christin
  4. Effects of independent variables for EU-15, new-10 and candidate countries No access Pages 95 - 97 Thomas Christin
5. Summary No access Pages 97 - 98 Thomas Christin
1. Cross-level interaction effects No access Pages 99 - 100 Thomas Christin
2. Methodology No access Pages 100 - 100 Thomas Christin
3. Intercepts- and slopes-as-outcomes model No access Pages 100 - 102 Thomas Christin
4. Empirical results No access Pages 102 - 105 Thomas Christin
5. Summary No access Pages 105 - 106 Thomas Christin
1. Support for the European Union No access Pages 107 - 109 Thomas Christin
2. Delegation and accountability No access Pages 109 - 110 Thomas Christin
3. Future orientations No access Pages 110 - 112 Thomas Christin
1. 1. Non parametric IRT No access Pages 113 - 114 Thomas Christin
  2. 2-parameter logistic model 2PLM No access Pages 114 - 116 Thomas Christin
  3. Results of the 2-PLM and association between measures of support for European integration and EU-level decision-making No access Pages 116 - 117 Thomas Christin
2. Appendix: Chapter 4 No access Pages 117 - 119 Thomas Christin
3. Appendix: Chapter 5 No access Pages 119 - 125 Thomas Christin
4. Appendix: Chapter 6 No access Pages 125 - 128 Thomas Christin
Bibliography No access Pages 129 - 138 Thomas Christin