What is the relationship between regional inequality and political discontent in Europe? This
special issue addresses this question by studying the influence of the subnational context …

This article advances the literature on the spatial patterns of EU support by arguing that the
relationship between regional inequality and EU trust is not linear. We posit that, to fully …

Governments need to make choices over distributing resources and managing
socioeconomic change, which can have geographically uneven effects. This may give rise to …

Recently, an emerging body of research has diagnosed a 'crisis of trust'in rural and
peripheral areas. Yet, the majority of these works overlook local institutions as a potential …

ABSTRACT I study if industrial decarbonisation yields elevated perceptions of political and
economic unfairness. Decarbonising industry is central for the Green Transition, but it will …

It is not only the states of the European Union (EU) that are heterogeneous in many
respects, but also the regions existing within them. In this paper, we make use of a conjoint …

Support for EU membership has long been an important topic of study. Individual-level
research shows that winners of globalisation, including the higher educated, express greater …

This article examines whether the spatial segregation of immigrant groups conditions the
relationship between the share of migrants and attitudes towards EU integration. Do varying …

This article sheds light on the class determinants of ecological attitudes and, at the same
time, tries to emphasize the general importance of class differentiation for the …

Reviewing the debate on why governments have failed to compensate low-and middle-
income citizens for rising income inequality, this essay argues for a perspective that …