1st Edition

Domestic Contestation of the European Union

Edited By Sara B. Hobolt, Toni Rodon Copyright 2021
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines how Europe-wide issues – such as immigration, cross-national redistribution and further European integration – have reshaped electoral democracy and party competition across Europe. After decades of scholars and commentators bemoaning the limited politicization of the EU nationally, European issues have come to dominate domestic electoral politics. From the Eurozone... Read more

Introduction: Domestic Contestation of the European Union

Sara B. Hobolt and Toni Rodon

1. Europe Belongs to the Young? Generational Differences in Public Opinion towards the European Union during the Eurozone Crisis

Fabian Lauterbach and Catherine E. De Vries

2. Labour market dualism and immigration policy preferences

Sergi Pardos-Prados

3. Preferences for European unemployment insurance: a question of economic ideology or EU support?

Theresa Kuhn, Francesco Nicoli and Frank Vandenbroucke

4. Cross-cutting issues and electoral choice. EU issue voting in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum

Sara B. Hobolt and Toni Rodon

5. Electoral Fortunes of Social Democratic Parties: Do Second Dimension Positions matter?

Tarik Abou-Chadi and Markus Wagner

6. Responding to Far Right Challengers: Does Accommodation Pay Off?

Jae-Jae Spoon and Heike Klüver

7. Multidimensional Incongruence, Political Disaffection, and Support for Anti-Establishment Parties

Ryan Bakker, Seth Jolly and Jonathan Polk

8. Mismatch? Comparing elite and citizen polarisation on EU issues across four countries

Andreas C. Goldberg, Erika J. van Elsas and Claes H. de Vreese

9. Unity in Diversity? Polarization, Issue Diversity and Satisfaction with Democracy

Julian Hoerner and Sara B. Hobolt

Biography

Sara B. Hobolt is the Sutherland Chair in European Institutions and Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. She is the author of four books on European politics, including Europe in Question (2009), Blaming Europe? (2014) and Political Entrepreneurs (2020).

Toni Rodon is Assistant Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. His research interests include electoral participation, political geography, comparative politics and historical political economy.