{"title":"Pragmatism, Euroscepticism and Integration: A Dynamic Approach","authors":"R. Rose","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2323445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2323445","url":null,"abstract":"Major proponents and opponents of European integration debate issues in terms of absolute values and ideology. Pragmatism offers a third way: it judges specific policies on the basis of experience -- and after more than half a century there is a lot of EU experience to judge. It analyses the causes of current problems with reference to evidence and it assesses costs and benefits of policies proposed to get rid of problems and make conditions better. This approach is not against European integration in principle. However, it is not in favour of an ever closer Union unless a pragmatic judgment of evidence makes a positive conclusion about likely benefits.","PeriodicalId":279834,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Public Opinion in the EU (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134280629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Has the Financial Crisis Eroded Citizens’ Trust in the European Central Bank? Panel Data Evidence for the Euro Area 1999-2011","authors":"Felix. Roth, D. Gros, F. Nowak-Lehmann","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1847465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1847465","url":null,"abstract":"In the aftermath of the financial crisis trust, in the European Central Bank (ECB) has reached an historical low. Taking panel data and using a fixed effects DFGLS estimation for a 12–country sample over the time period 1999 to 2011 with a total of 312 observations, this paper detects a structural break in citizens’ trust in the ECB. The paper confirms that during the pre-crisis period, citizens’ trust in the ECB was driven by economic growth. In crisis time, however, trust in the ECB is both driven by inflation and unemployment.","PeriodicalId":279834,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Public Opinion in the EU (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131743590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}