Who's in Charge? How Voters Attribute Responsibility in the European Union
Who's in Charge? How Voters Attribute Responsibility in the European Union
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DOI：
10.1177/0010414013488549
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发表时间：
2014-05-01
影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
Tilley, James
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作者：
Hobolt, Sara B.;Tilley, James
作为一个新兴的联邦体制，欧盟将决策权划分在多个级别的政府之间。然而，人们对欧盟公民如何将责任归咎于欧盟知之甚少。特别是，人们是否认为欧盟，而不是各国政府，对不同的政策结果负责，其中一些主要是在欧盟层面决定的？本文探讨了欧盟的制度差异和个人偏见在多大程度上影响了公民的责任归属。我们依靠在所有27个欧盟成员国收集的独特调查数据，探讨公民如何在五个不同的政策领域中承担责任。使用多层次模型的责任判断，我们的研究结果表明，而公民的评价对应的制度背景下，集团服务的偏见，支持欧盟，有一个更重要的作用，在塑造欧盟的责任归属。
As an emerging federal system, the European Union (EU) divides decision-making powers between multiple levels of government. Yet little is known about how EU citizens attribute responsibility to the EU. In particular, do people hold the EU, rather than national governments, responsible for different policy outcomes, some of which are primarily decided at the EU level? This article investigates the extent to which institutional differences and individual biases influence citizens' attribution of responsibility in the EU. We rely on unique survey data collected in all 27 EU member states to explore how citizens attribute responsibility across five different policy areas. Using a multilevel model of responsibility judgments, our findings show that while citizens' evaluations correspond to the institutional context, group-serving biases, related to support for the EU, have a more important role in shaping attributions of responsibility in the EU.