scholarly journals EU Accession Immigration and the Rise of UKIP

2019 ◽  
pp. 74-93
Author(s):  
Edward Fieldhouse ◽  
Jane Green ◽  
Geoffrey Evans ◽  
Jonathan Mellon ◽  
Christopher Prosser ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Eu Accession ◽  
Accession Countries ◽  
High Salience ◽  
Eu Accession Countries ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Issue Dimensions

This chapter explains how the powerful issue dimensions of the EU and immigration were combined in the 2004 decision for open immigration with EU accession countries. As immigration rose in the 2000s, the salience of immigration increased substantially. The 2004 immigration decision had two key consequences. Firstly, it greatly constrained the ability of UK governments to change the level of immigration in response to public opinion, and secondly, it closely linked the previously separate issues of immigration and Europe. The salience of immigration was related most strongly to media coverage of the issue, which in turn closely tracked the actual rates of immigration. UKIP capitalized on this combined EU/immigration dimension and substantial numbers of voters switched to UKIP from the major parties in 2015 on this basis. We show that without the high salience of immigration between 2010 and 2015, the defections to UKIP would have been relatively small.

scholarly journals Exploring the sophistication in services exports

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-209
Author(s):  
Falguni Pankaj Desai
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Eu Accession ◽  
New Member States ◽  
Accession Countries ◽  
Modern Services ◽  
Eu New Member States ◽  
India And China ◽  
Eu Accession Countries ◽  
The Eu

The paper aims at providing empirical evidence of increasing sophistication in services exported by the developing countries.The last two decades have witnessed  a phenomenal rise not only in the share of services traded by both developed and developing countries , but also, a structural shift in favour of trade in modern services as against dominance of  traditional services. Spanning over a period of 10 years i.e. from 2000 to 2010 we examine and compare the changing composition and sophistication in services exported by 38 countries comprising: Brazil, Russian Federation, India and China (BRICs), European Union (EU)-15 countries, 12-EU New Member States (EU-NMS), 5-EU Accession countries (EU- ACC), USA and Japan. We use the methodology developed by Hausmann et al (2007) which measures the level of sophistication associated with country’s export basket of goods. But in this paper we have applied this methodology to study sophistication in the export of services instead of goods.  We find that there is a big divide in the values of the sophistication index between EU-15 and EU-ACC, the latter exhibiting considerable lower values of the index.  But the gap in the value of the sophistication index between EU-15 and India, Russia, and some of the EU-NMS has narrowed. 

Is there a third way to EMU for the EU accession countries?

2001 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Bofinger ◽  
Timo Wollmershäuser
Keyword(s):  
Eu Accession ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Accession Countries ◽  
Eu Accession Countries ◽  
The Eu
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