Pub Date : 2023-10-28DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00314-6
Anne-Marie Jeannet, Lenka Dražanová
Abstract Recent studies have demonstrated generational differences in attitudes towards immigration, however, less is known about what are the exact factors behind these differences. Our study investigates why cohorts formulate distinct patterns in attitudes towards immigration through a collective process of political socialization during their formative years. The theoretical arguments are tested using hierarchical age-period-cohort modelling across thirteen cohorts in thirteen European countries using micro attitudinal data (2002–2020) integrated with historical macro-political data. We find that contextual exposure to the principle of equality in the formative political climate is central to the formulation of a person’s attitudes towards immigration later in life. While the prevalence of the principle of equality affects immigration attitudes in adulthood positively, the principle of tradition does not. The findings imply that even subtle and cyclical shifts in national politics affect the political orientations of those undergoing the process of political socialization.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-21DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00317-3
Olga Zelinska, Yevhen Revtiuk
{"title":"Why a Euromaidan movement party never emerged: a field theory approach","authors":"Olga Zelinska, Yevhen Revtiuk","doi":"10.1057/s41269-023-00317-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-00317-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135511873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-13DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00309-3
Marcel Lubbers, Simon Otjes, Niels Spierings
{"title":"What drives the propensity to vote for ethnic-minority-interest parties?","authors":"Marcel Lubbers, Simon Otjes, Niels Spierings","doi":"10.1057/s41269-023-00309-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-00309-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135858945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-26DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00313-7
Lucas Schramm
Abstract Differentiated integration, and the prospect thereof, is a prominent feature of European integration and policymaking. This article theorizes and demonstrates an explicit link between the threat of differentiated integration and the resolution of major European integration crises. Based on archival sources and secondary literature on differentiated integration, it shows how and why, in June 1984, the United Kingdom and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher agreed to increase the European Community’s (EC) financial resources, despite their years-long insistence on budgetary restraint and their formal right to veto such a decision. The article argues that the prospect of a ‘multi-speed’ Europe, represented by Franco-German ‘go-it-alone’ power, threatened to exclude recalcitrant member states. Lacking more promising alternatives to continued membership in a reformed EC, the British government consented to European financial objectives. It also joined the other national governments towards deeper political integration and, eventually, a European Union, despite its actual rejection of European federal ambitions. The article’s theoretical expectations and empirical findings on ways to overcome intergovernmental deadlock based on formal national veto rights have broader implications also for more recent European integration crises.
{"title":"Using go-it-alone power to overcome intergovernmental deadlock: national vetoes, credible threats, and multi-speed Europe in the British budgetary rebate crisis","authors":"Lucas Schramm","doi":"10.1057/s41269-023-00313-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-00313-7","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Differentiated integration, and the prospect thereof, is a prominent feature of European integration and policymaking. This article theorizes and demonstrates an explicit link between the threat of differentiated integration and the resolution of major European integration crises. Based on archival sources and secondary literature on differentiated integration, it shows how and why, in June 1984, the United Kingdom and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher agreed to increase the European Community’s (EC) financial resources, despite their years-long insistence on budgetary restraint and their formal right to veto such a decision. The article argues that the prospect of a ‘multi-speed’ Europe, represented by Franco-German ‘go-it-alone’ power, threatened to exclude recalcitrant member states. Lacking more promising alternatives to continued membership in a reformed EC, the British government consented to European financial objectives. It also joined the other national governments towards deeper political integration and, eventually, a European Union, despite its actual rejection of European federal ambitions. The article’s theoretical expectations and empirical findings on ways to overcome intergovernmental deadlock based on formal national veto rights have broader implications also for more recent European integration crises.","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134886806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-26DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00311-9
Mónica Ferrín, Gema M. García-Albacete
{"title":"Disinterested or enraged? Understanding people’s political interest","authors":"Mónica Ferrín, Gema M. García-Albacete","doi":"10.1057/s41269-023-00311-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-00311-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46665740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00312-8
Cathrine Holst, Johan Christensen
{"title":"The epistemic quality of expert bodies: from normative-theoretical concept to empirical measurement","authors":"Cathrine Holst, Johan Christensen","doi":"10.1057/s41269-023-00312-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-00312-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44457696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00310-w
S. Otjes, Tom Louwerse
{"title":"The reinvention of consensus politics: governing without a legislative majority in the Netherlands 2010–2021","authors":"S. Otjes, Tom Louwerse","doi":"10.1057/s41269-023-00310-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-00310-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48966060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-03DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00308-4
Denny van der Vlist
{"title":"Correction: Parliament as a steppingstone? Patterns of post-parliamentary careers in The Netherlands between 1967 and 2017","authors":"Denny van der Vlist","doi":"10.1057/s41269-023-00308-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-00308-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44200389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-25DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00307-5
A. Dias, Luca Manucci, F. Raimundo
{"title":"Populism and transitional justice: talking the talk without walking the walk","authors":"A. Dias, Luca Manucci, F. Raimundo","doi":"10.1057/s41269-023-00307-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-00307-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47609127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-07DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00305-7
Javier Padilla, M. Trujillo
{"title":"Explaining Romanies’ high abstentionism: socialization effects and political interest","authors":"Javier Padilla, M. Trujillo","doi":"10.1057/s41269-023-00305-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-00305-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43704677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}