Public Opinion and Disunity over EU Integration

<p>This book explores the origins characteristics and impact of public support for the European Union (EU) on the process of EU integration.</p><p>It examines core questions around the dynamics behind the (dis)integration processes how multidimensional attitudes toward the EU are interrelated the dimensions and cleavages of party competition and the public-political elites link in EU policy-making. By simultaneously applying cleavage and post-functionalist theoretical perspectives the book observes whether the era of multiple crises has changed support for the EU creating a more polarized public whose attitudes can constrain favor or even stop integration and country membership.</p><p>This book is of key interest to scholars and students of global governance Euroscepticism populism public opinion democracy and more generally European/EU studies and European politics.</p>