Recent elections in the advanced western democracies have undermined the basic
foundations of political systems that had previously beaten back all challenges--from both …

The European Union has had to deal with a series of crises in the past, but currently, it faces
an exceptional accumulation of tensions triggered by the eurozone crisis, the refugee crisis …

Research on Euroscepticism has drawn from two different fields of study. The first is the
research that comes from comparative politics and which has focused on the wider …

This article explores the link between the financial crisis and Euroscepticism at the level of
public opinion, building on and developing further the literature on the impact of economic …

In the two decades since the emergence of the European Union at Maastricht there has
been a concerted attempt to build a European political space, typified by the debates on …

Since the advent of the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, a key turning point in terms of the
crystallisation of opposition towards the European Union (EU), Euroscepticism has become …

This article analyses whether and how public opinion towards the European Union (EU) in
Greece has changed in the context of the current Eurozone crisis. It provides the first …

The macroeconomic context and crisis management are now becoming salient issues
among employees. Low levels of fear about the economic situation and the belief that one is …

This article analyses the differences in institutional design in national parliamentary control
over European Union affairs among EU member states. It proceeds from a preference-based …

The article provides a comparative analysis of the 2014 European Parliament elections
across the six countries of Southern Europe by gauging the performance of the secondorder …