Explaining support for the EU. Political economy and rationality.

Required:

Clawson&Oxley pp.173-176.

Chapter 26 from Cini, Michelle and Pérez-Solórzano Borragán. 2013. European Union Politics 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (pages 354-365; available in the IS)

Gabel, Matthew and Harvey Palmer. 1995. "Understanding the variation in public support for European integration. European Journal of Political Research. 27: 3-19.

Recommended:

Gabel, M. 1998. "Public support for European integration: An empirical test of five theories." Journal of Politics 60 (2):333-54.

Henjak, Andrija, G. Tóka, and David Sanders. 2012. "Support for European Integration." In Citizens and the European Polity Mass Attitudes Towards the European and National Polities, ed. D. Sanders, P. C. Magalhaes and G. Tóka. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Eichenberg, R. C., and R. J. Dalton.  2007.  "Post-Maastricht Blues: The Transformation of Citizen Support for European Integration, 1973-2004."  Acta Politica 42: 128-52.