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  • Public opinion on European integration has been studied extensively. However, much of the work has been conducted on an aggregate national level or individual level across nations without taking detailed account of the specificities of each member state, even though these distinctive features can be essential to explaining public views. The dissertation offers a comprehensive, comparative analysis of French and British public opinion on the EU from 1992 to 2001, in a period of significant changes brought out by integration. In particular it examines the effects of national and individual utilitarian appraisals on EU support and considers whether attachments to particular socio-economic models structure preferences for EU policy. By extensively reworking and testing Eurobarometer data, the thesis corrects some previous distortions, offers a more rigorous treatment of the effect of utilitarian explanations on EU support than past research has done and provides some methodological enhancements. It is thus demonstrated that in a context of increased visibility and politicisation of the EU in France and the UK, utilitarian appraisals played an ever-increasing part in moulding attitudes towards the EU, while affective EU support eroded - especially in France, where it had been more developed. The significant drop in support for EU membership and for further integration in France and the United Kingdom resulted from discontent with the perceived contribution of the EU to national and individual economic and social situations. This also reflected the fact that majorities in both countries favoured a change in the political direction of the EU to cater for their own policy concerns. The French preferred a widely integrated EU based on regulated capitalism with a high level of social protection, where the principle of European preference was enforced. The British preferred a model of loose intergovernmental association of nations, where neo-liberalism and free trade rules prevailed. In the light of these findings the dissertation concludes that EU policy makers need to devise flexible modes of integration whilst achieving positive outcomes in the socio-economic sphere if they are to satisfy both national publics. (xsd:string)
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