Bølstad, Jørgen - In: European Union Politics 16 (2015) 1, pp. 23-44
The relationship between public opinion and public policy provides a potential criterion for assessing the democratic …-wide public mood towards integration. Analyzing West-European series of public opinion from 1974 to 2011, this article finds … to be significantly influenced, or constrained, by public opinion both in the core and periphery. …