Nguyen, Eric S. - In: European Union Politics 9 (2008) 2, pp. 269-293
This article investigates the effect of public opinion, ideology, and political security on state decision-making on … interdependence. I argue that leaders with higher political security are able to discount adverse public opinion and to pursue their … public opinion. I test this hypothesis using a series of ordered probit models, and I conclude that even modest gains in …