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Attitudes towards European Integration and the Danish Common Market Referendum
Author(s) -
Petersen Nikolaj
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
scandinavian political studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.65
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9477
pISSN - 0080-6757
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9477.1978.tb00167.x
Subject(s) - referendum , danish , salient , european integration , identification (biology) , political science , sample (material) , single market , market integration , economic integration , political economy , european union , sociology , economics , international trade , law , macroeconomics , philosophy , linguistics , botany , chemistry , chromatography , politics , biology
The article analyses survey data on the role played by the issue of European integration in the Danish Common Market referendum 1972. Despite a 2:1 vote in favor of membership, support for supranational European integration was low; in fact, integration as an issue was considerably more salient to opponents of membership than supporters who tended to vote mainly for tangible, i.e. economic reasons. As many as one‐fourth of the sample voted for membership though being highly anti‐integrationist, either because of disbelief in the dynamics of integration, because of the higher saliency of tangible benefits, or because of identification with strongly pro‐market parties.