What motivates eurosceptic voters in net-payer and net-receiver EU member states?

This paper investigates what motivates four dimensions of Euroscepticism in 28 member states of the European Union. The sample is split between net-payer and receiver countries with respect to the EU budget. All dimensions of scepticism are found to be heavily concentrated among the political left i...

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Autor principal: Jansen, Lukas Ben (author)
Formato: masterThesis
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2017
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10362/22288
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:run.unl.pt:10362/22288
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Resumo:This paper investigates what motivates four dimensions of Euroscepticism in 28 member states of the European Union. The sample is split between net-payer and receiver countries with respect to the EU budget. All dimensions of scepticism are found to be heavily concentrated among the political left in receiver countries, while both political extremes are more instrumentally eurosceptic and dissatisfied with the current EU in payer countries. There is, however, an increased probability that the political right in receiver countries will become more eurosceptic based on their opposition to immigration.