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The imitation game: indirect European Union influence on municipal officials’ attitudes towards elite corruption and informal payments
The European Union has sought to democratise its post-communist neighbours for the past three decades, starting with Central and Eastern Europe after...
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To trust or not to trust? ‘Exit’ approaches in EU citizens’ attitudes after Brexit
The European Union (EU) is a unique international alliance project, successful in maintaining political stability through its institutional model and...
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Catch 2020: explaining the performance of the EU policy towards Belarus
This article analyses the performance of EU policy towards Belarus, the effectiveness of the EU’s “critical engagement” with the regime in 2014–2020...
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Lobbying transparency and attitudes towards interest groups: a survey experiment
Despite the growing interest for lobbying in public opinion research, little is known about citizen’s attitudes towards interest groups, especially...
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Bulgaria’s Attitude Towards EU Enlargement
Bulgaria became part of the European Union (EU) on 1 January 2007, within the second wave of the EU’s largest enlargement so far. Accordingly, as a...
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Attitudes of national decision-makers towards differentiated integration in the European Union
Differentiated integration (DI) in the European Union (EU) has mainly been understood as variation in participation in common policies. But DI also...
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Religion, Values and Politics: The Effect of Religiosity on Attitudes Towards Immigrants and Muslims
The European Values Study demonstrates a significant impact of religiosity on political attitudes. As an example, the authors investigate the effect...
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Narrating the other: the Chinese media’s representation of European integration and China–EU relations in the context of Brexit
By studying representations of European integration and China–European Union (EU) relations after Brexit in China’s state-owned newspapers, this...
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Emergency politics, mass sentiment and the EU during Covid
During crises, do emergency politics impair the EU polity by alienating Europeans? Recent literature suggests that executive decisions in hard times...
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Chinese perceptions of the EU: the impact of social media use
With the rise of China and the deepening of China-EU interactions, it is crucial for both China and the EU to know the Chinese public perceptions of...
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After the Crisis: EU Issue Voting in Greece
Compared to the other countries examined in this volume, Greece is the one that suffered the most financially during the economic crisis. Public...
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A climate of optimism? EU policy-making, political science and the democratization of Central and Eastern Europe (2000–2015)
Democratic erosion in the EU’s Central and Eastern European (CEE) member states has confounded EU policy-makers. In this paper, we investigate the...
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Transformations of Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine Towards EU Membership
This chapter examines the processes of democratic transformation in Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine. These countries must meet the political criteria...
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Living up to expectations? EU politicization and party Europeanization in Flanders and the Netherlands
At the turn of the century, both academics and practitioners anticipated the Europeanization of national politics and political parties. One major...
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Chinese representations of EU trade actorness
Despite many studies on Chinese representations of the European Union (EU), limited attention has been given to how this is shaped by the EU’s trade...
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Mass issue attitudes, political sophistication and ideology: the European case
This article investigates how mass issue attitudes are structured and constrained across different levels of political sophistication. To do so, it...
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Prostitution and the EU: Neoliberalism, Vulnerability and Security
This chapter addresses the origin and evolution of prostitution on the violence against women policies of the EU, and explains the adoption by the EP...
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Hungary, the EU and Russia’s War Against Ukraine: The Changing Dynamics of EU Foreign Policymaking
The Hungarian government led by the populist radical right (PRR) Fidesz party, which came to power in 2010, soon gained a reputation for reorganizing...
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Strict, Fair, Engaged… . And Still Without a Vision? A View from the Netherlands on EU Enlargement and Its Neighbourhood
The Netherlands is fundamentally sceptical or critical towards EU enlargement, a sentiment often linked to the Dutch population’s generally negative...
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Refugees and Migration Policies of ASEAN and the EU
Over the past decades, the EU and ASEAN have shown a similar tendency for restrictive migration policies, albeit with regional variations, aiming to...