Determinants of support for EU-membership in Hungary

Attila Folsz; Gábor Tóka

doi:10.1007/978-1-137-11500-3_8

Determinants of support for EU-membership in Hungary

Attila Folsz^*, Gábor Tóka

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This chapter examines public support for the EU in Hungary between 1991 and 2003. Our argument is that support for EU membership is likely to have multiple roots given the complexity of the EU and citizens’ limited information about it. Chief among them are individuals’ preference for characteristics associated with the Union and its individual member-states to trust in political leaders pursuing integration. We further postulate that popular opinions about complex and multifaceted attitude objects like the European Union are strongly assisted by information shortcuts provided by media coverage, partisanship, ideology, and retrospective as well as prospective performance evaluations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Public Opinion, Party Competition, and the European Union in Post-Communist Europe
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	145-164
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Electronic)	9781137115003
ISBN (Print)	9781349737499
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-11500-3_8
State	Published - 30 Apr 2016

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