Sharon Baute

TL;DR: This paper investigated public support for two types of EUwide solidarity that currently exist, namely member state solidarity and transnational solidarity, and found that opposition towards European integration, in particular regarding EU enlargement, reduces citizens' willingness to support European solidarity to a large extent.

TL;DR: In this paper, a multigroup confirmatory factor analysis was used to analyze the 2014 Belgian National Election Study to distinguish between the decision-making level for social policy, European social citizenship, harmonization, member-state solidarity and interpersonal solidarity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether citizens' concerns about the EU's impact on social security are a distinct source of Euroscepticism, and they found that socioeconomic determinants and ideological position are more important in explaining citizens' fear about the impact of European integration than in explaining their generalised fear about European integration.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how support for Social Europe is related to citizens' welfare attitudes, and found that those who are more positive about the welfare state are also more supportive of Social Europe.

TL;DR: The economic crisis and the unequal degree to which it has affected European Union (EU) member states have fuelled the debate on whether the EU should take responsibility for the living standards of its citizens as discussed by the authors.