A blessing and a curse? Examining public preferences for differentiated integration
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...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Data de publicação: | 2022 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | IE |
| Repositório: | Repositorio IE |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.ie.edu:20.500.14417/3987 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://doi.org/10.1177/14651165221133671 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3987 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14651165221133671 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Differentiated integration EU support public opinion 59 Ciencia Política ODS 10 - Reducción de las desigualdades |
| Resumo: | 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. |
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