A KÉTELY MOZGATÓRUGÓI: Az európai integráció mélyítésével kapcsolatos választói attitűdöket befolyásoló tényezők Skandináviában
THE MOVERS OF DOUBT. FACTORS INFLUENCING VOTER ATTITUDES RELATED TO DEEPENING EUROPEAN INTEGRATION IN SCANDINAVIA

Summary/Abstract: Though acceding to the European Union is still not on the agenda due to the clear majority of voters and political parties in Norway, the mainstream parties and the majority of voters have accepted and by and large regard advantageous the membership of their country in the EU in Sweden and Denmark. At the same time, attitudes that can be considered sceptical in many respects in relation to integration all over Scandinavia cannot be simply reduced to the support or rejection of membership due to the complex nature of the EU. In this paper I explore in what direction and to what extent do structural, ideological and contextual factors infl uence voters’ attitudes related to deepening integration on the basis of the European Election Survey (EES) of 2009 and of the data of the Norwegian Election Survey also of 2009, and, in the case of the two EU-members what are the perceptions concerning the current functioning of the EU. Results show that the autonomous effect of the traditional left and right self-classifi cation has less infl uence than assumed by the majority of the literature, as in Norway it is primarily structural factors, whereas in the two other countries it is also other ideological and contextual factors that play at least as important role in many cases.

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