Breaking down public opinion on European integration: the role of national borders

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Breaking down public opinion on European integration: the role of national borders
Titre du livre
National Populism and Borders: The Politicisation of Cross-border Mobilisations in Europe
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Lauener Lukas
Editeur
Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN
9781802208047
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
13/01/2023
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Editeur⸱rice scientifique
Mazzoleni Oscar, Pilotti Andrea, Biancalana Cecilia, Bernhard Laurent, Yerly Grégoire, Lauener Lukas
Série
New Horizons in European Politics series
Numéro de chapitre
7
Pages
119-142
Langue
anglais
Résumé
When explaining public support for European integration, an important factor has been widely ignored by the literature: national borders. This chapter examines how border-related attitudes and habits affect citizens' support for different European integration policies in the Swiss-EU relationship. The analyses draw on data from a representative survey that includes citizens' opinions on the bilateral agreements, free movement of persons, cohesion billion, institutional framework agreement, and EU membership. The results show that citizens' preferences for "re-bordering", i.e., reinforcing national borders, strongly reduce support for all European integration policies. In contrast to these border-related attitudes, border-related habits - as measured by the frequency of travels across the border - only affect support for the bilateral agreements. Finally, a well-established determinant of Euroscepticism, political ideology, remains central to explaining support for integration policies: sympathisers of the nationalist-populist radical right Swiss People's Party are found to be consistently against all five selected European integration issues.
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