Domestic Contestation of the European Union

Sara B. Hobolt is the Sutherland Chair in European Institutions and Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. She is the author of four books on European politics, including Europe in Question (2009), Blaming Europe? (2014) and Political Entrepreneurs (2020).Toni Rodon is Assistant Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. His research interests include electoral participation, political geography, comparative politics and historical political economy.

• Introduction: Domestic Contestation of the European UnionSara B. Hobolt and Toni Rodon1. Europe Belongs to the Young? Generational Differences in Public Opinion towards the European Union during the Eurozone CrisisFabian Lauterbach and Catherine E. De Vries2. Labour market dualism and immigration policy preferencesSergi Pardos-Prados 3. Preferences for European unemployment insurance: a question of economic ideology or EU support? Theresa Kuhn, Francesco Nicoli and Frank Vandenbroucke 4. Cross-cutting issues and electoral choice. EU issue voting in the aftermath of the Brexit referendumSara B. Hobolt and Toni Rodon5. Electoral Fortunes of Social Democratic Parties: Do Second Dimension Positions matter? Tarik Abou-Chadi and Markus Wagner 6. Responding to Far Right Challengers: Does Accommodation Pay Off? Jae-Jae Spoon and Heike Klüver 7. Multidimensional Incongruence, Political Disaffection, and Support for Anti-Establishment PartiesRyan Bakker, Seth Jolly and Jonathan Polk8. Mismatch? Comparing elite and citizen polarisation on EU issues across four countriesAndreas C. Goldberg, Erika J. van Elsas and Claes H. de Vreese 9. Unity in Diversity? Polarization, Issue Diversity and Satisfaction with DemocracyJulian Hoerner and Sara B. Hobolt