Abstract
Despite it being at the core of EU integration, support for the EU’s single market is under-investigated by European public opinion scholars. This paper uses novel data from 8 EU member states to compare how utilitarian concerns, post-materialist values and social group identities shape popular views of the EU’s single market integration. We find that attitudes towards a ‘New politics’ cleavage more consistently predicts such attitudes than either economic positioning or partisan differences. We thus make an important contribution to the literature on attitudes towards European integration by showing that postmaterialist values matter not only for views of highly politicized issues like migration, but also ‘bread-and-butter’ policies like single market governance.
The paper is co-written by Martin Moland, Tobias Bach, Nicholas F. Jacobs and Craig A. Parsons.
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