scholarly journals Are Europeans ready for a more democratic European Union? New evidence on preference heterogeneity, polarisation and crosscuttingness

2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
THOMAS HALE ◽  
MATHIAS KOENIG-ARCHIBUGI
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Preference Heterogeneity ◽  
New Evidence

scholarly journals Government expenditure and economic growth in the European Union countries: New evidence

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (36) ◽  
pp. 127-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Pascual Sáez ◽  
Santiago Álvarez-García ◽  
Daniela Castañeda Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
European Union ◽  
Government Spending ◽  
Government Expenditure ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Public ◽  
European Union Countries ◽  
The Impact ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis paper provides new evidence of the impact of government spending on economic growth in the European Union countries. Governments can adjust their levels of spending in order to influence their economies, although the relationship between these variables can be positive or negative, depending on the countries included in the sample, the period of estimation and the variables which reflect the size of the public sector. The results obtained based on regression and panel techniques suggest that government expenditure is not clearly related with economic growth in the European Union countries over the period 1994-2012.

scholarly journals Brexit and the Everyday Politics of Emotion: Methodological Lessons from History

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 837-856
Author(s):  
Jonathan Moss ◽  
Emily Robinson ◽  
Jake Watts
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
European Union ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Politics ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Political Decision Making

The 2016 European Union referendum campaign has been depicted as a battle between ‘heads’ and ‘hearts’, reason and emotion. Voters’ propensity to trust their feelings over expert knowledge has sparked debate about the future of democratic politics in what is increasingly believed to be an ‘age of emotion’. In this article, we argue that we can learn from the ways that historians have approached the study of emotions and everyday politics to help us make sense of this present moment. Drawing on William Reddy’s concept of ‘emotional regimes’, we analyse the position of emotion in qualitative, ‘everyday narratives’ about the 2016 European Union referendum. Using new evidence from the Mass Observation Archive, we argue that while reason and emotion are inextricable facets of political decision-making, citizens themselves understand the two processes as distinct and competing.

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