Who is in favor of enlargement? Determinants of support for EU membership in the candidate countries' referenda

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We analyze support for EU membership as expressed in voting patterns in the candidate countries’ referenda on EU membership, using regional referendum results and individual survey data on voting intentions. We find that favorable individual and regional characteristics are positively correlated with support for accession and voter participation. In contrast, those who should benefit from future EU transfers are less likely to vote and/or support EU membership. We argue that voters in the candidate countries assign greater weight on future benefits from liberalization and integration than on potential gains through redistribution.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ZEI Working Paper ; No. B 04-2004

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Political Economy; Property Rights ; Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: International Trade, Finance, Investment, Relations, and Aid ; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
• Subject: Voting ; referendum ; EU enlargement ; integration

Contributors, Location and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Doyle, Orla ; Fidrmuc, Jan
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2004

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/39518
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