Public opinion is increasingly at the heart of both political and scholarly debates on
European integration. This article reviews the large literature on public support for, and …

In this article, I offer a review of the uses and findings regarding public issue salience in the
political science literature, with a focus on electoral behaviour. I argue that in spite of the …

" The book's combined focus on parties as institutions and systems, alongside political
attitudes and behaviors, is why I use it... I have yet to find another text that accomplishes …

Starting from the observation that the European Union now possesses many of the attributes
of modern political systems, Hix and Høyland take an innovative approach to analysing …

In the literature on European integration, politicization as concept is often attributed major
importance. This article shows how the literature variously discusses the politicization of …

This book develops and tests a" thermostatic" model of public opinion and policy, in which
preferences for policy both drive and adjust to changes in policy. The representation of …

There is a growing body of work suggesting that responses to positive and negative
information are asymmetric—that negative information has a much greater impact on …

This book shows empirically for the first time how a mass European identity has emerged
across the EU member states between 1970 and the present day. Beyond this novel …

The European Union seems incapable of undertaking economic reforms and defining its
place in the world. Public apathy towards the EU is also increasing, as citizens feel isolated …

The European Commission is at the center of the European Union's political system. Within
its five-year terms each Commission proposes up to 2000 binding legal acts and therefore …