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The European Union (EU) is facing one of the rockiest periods in its existence. At no time in its history has it looked so economically fragile, so insecure about how to protect its borders, so divided over how to tackle the crisis of legitimacy facing its institutions, and so under assault by Eurosceptic parties. The unprecedented levels of integration in recent decades have led to increased public contestation, yet at the same the EU is more reliant on public support for its continued legitimacy than ever before. This book examines the role of public opinion in the European integration process. It develops a novel theory of public opinion that stresses the deep interconnectedness between people’s views about European and national politics. It suggests that public opinion cannot simply be characterized as either Eurosceptic or not, but rather that it consists of different types. This is important because these types coincide with fundamentally different views about the way the EU should be reformed and which policy priorities should be pursued. These types also have very different consequences for behaviour in elections and referendums. Euroscepticism is such a diverse phenomenon because the Eurozone crisis has exacerbated the structural imbalances within the EU. As the economic and political fates of member states have diverged, people’s experiences with and evaluations of the EU and national political systems have also grown further apart. The heterogeneity in public preferences that this book has uncovered makes a one-size-fits-all approach to addressing Euroscepticism unlikely to be successful.

European Union --- Public opinion. --- Europe --- Economic integration. --- E.U. --- Social integration --- Gay culture Europe --- Europa

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De crisis in de eurozone heeft de hervorming van de Europese Unie (EU) op de voorgrond van het politieke debat geplaatst. Hoe kan een unie van 27 staten met een bevolking van bijna een half miljard mensen worden hervormd om economi-sche crisissen en politieke uitdagingen het hoofd te bieden in de toekomst? Een antwoord vinden op deze vraag is geen sinecure. Niet alleen omdat de huidige hervormingsvoorstellen zo uiteenlopend zijn, maar des te meer omdat we niet genoeg inzicht hebben in de voorkeuren van de nationale elites en het grote pu-bliek wat betreft de manier waarop deze hervorming moet plaatsvinden. Hoewel de steun van de EU al meer dan drie decennia de interesse van wetenschappers en academici heeft weten op te wekken, weten we vrijwel niets over de steun van het grote publiek aan een hervorming van de EU. Het huidige onderzoek focust vrijwel uitsluitend op de oorzaken van de steun voor het huidige project en biedt geen voldoende basis voor daadwerkelijke beslissingen om tot hervorming over te gaan. De haalbaarheid en duurzaamheid van de hervorming van de EU hangt zeker in grote mate af van de steun van het nationale publiek. eupinions onderzoekt in welke mate het publiek de hervorming van de EU steunt door een theoretisch model te ontwikkelen en toonaangevende technieken voor gegevensverzameling te gebruiken. Onze bevindingen zullen de beleidsmakers helpen hervormings-voorstellen voor de EU op te stellen die op brede steun van het grote publiek zullen kunnen rekenen.

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Challenger parties are on the rise in Europe, exemplified by the likes of Podemos in Spain, the National Rally in France, the Alternative for Germany, or the Brexit Party in Great Britain. Like disruptive entrepreneurs, these parties offer new policies and defy the dominance of established party brands. In the face of these challenges and a more volatile electorate, mainstream parties are losing their grip on power. This book explores why some challenger parties are so successful and what mainstream parties can do to confront these political entrepreneurs. Drawing analogies with how firms compete, the book demonstrates that political change is as much about the ability of challenger parties to innovate as it is about the inability of dominant parties to respond. Challenger parties employ two types of innovation to break established party dominance: they mobilize new issues, such as immigration, the environment, and Euroscepticism, and they employ antiestablishment rhetoric to undermine mainstream party appeal. Unencumbered by government experience, challenger parties adapt more quickly to shifting voter tastes and harness voter disenchantment. Delving into strategies of dominance versus innovation, the authors explain why European party systems have remained stable for decades, but also why they are now increasingly under strain. As challenger parties continue to seek to disrupt the existing order, Political Entrepreneurs shows that their ascendency fundamentally alters government stability and democratic politics.

Political parties --- Europe --- Politics and government

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In this report, we delve deeper into people’s anxieties by focusing on their senseof societal pessimism. We present evidence based on a survey conducted in December2019 in which we interviewed more than 12,000 EU citizens. Our data isrepresentative for the EU as a whole, as well as for seven member states includingBelgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain. At theend of this report, we take a look at the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and Europeangovernments’ response to it. In particular, we examine what lessons might bedrawn from times of crisis-management for politics in general.

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