The Drivers of Public and Party-Based Euroscepticism in the United Kingdom

关于英国在不断变化的欧洲中的角色和未来，全国范围内的争论日益激烈。公众舆论的趋势、现有政党在该国欧盟成员身份问题上的分歧，以及英国独立党（Ukip）等“强硬”欧洲怀疑论政党的崛起，都强调需要高质量的证据和分析来为这场辩论提供信息。然而，正如 ESRC 的一份范围界定报告指出的那样，英国境内的欧洲怀疑主义实际上是一个研究不足的领域。这与其他欧盟成员国中关于欧洲怀疑主义表现的文献数量迅速增长形成鲜明对比。与此同时，寻求让更广泛的非学术界受众了解他们的研究和发现的研究人员就更少了。这一创新和协作奖学金的目的就是弥补这些差距。它直接关注公众（即对欧盟的态度）和基于政党的欧洲怀疑主义（即对英国独立党等政党的选举和成员支持以及此类团体的战略和信息）。欧洲怀疑论态度和公众对英国独立党等公开的欧洲怀疑论政党的支持的驱动因素是什么？社会上哪些群体特别容易接受欧洲怀疑论的信息和运动？欧洲怀疑论态度在不同社会阶层、代际、种族群体和地区之间有何不同？基于政党的欧洲怀疑主义对我们的政党制度有什么影响？政策制定者、从业者、媒体和公众如何理解这一挑战并解决相关问题？以一种易于理解和面向外的方式回答这些问题将为关于英国在不断变化的欧洲中的未来的更广泛的全国性辩论提供重要信息。为此，该奖学金借鉴并更新了最近关于这些问题的学术研究，这些研究才刚刚开始对非学术界产生影响。它将向以这些问题为中心的现有数据集中添加新数据，然后与 ESRC 和伦敦智库查塔姆研究所合作，通过一系列引人注目且易于理解的成果来传达社会科学的力量。与不同利益相关者群体举行的研讨会、一系列证据简报、博客、最终报告、附带的启动活动和社交媒体都将用于向广泛和多样化的受众传播这些领域的社会科学研究。

There is a growing national debate about the role and future of the UK in a changing Europe. Trends in public opinion, divides in the established parties over the country's EU membership, and the rise of 'hard' Eurosceptic political parties like the UK Independence Party (Ukip) underscore the need for high quality evidence and analysis to inform this debate. However, and as one scoping report for the ESRC notes, Euroscepticism within the United Kingdom is actually an under-researched area. This contrasts sharply to a rapidly growing body of literature on manifestations of Euroscepticism in other EU member states. Meanwhile, even fewer researchers have sought to make their research and findings accessible to a wider audience of non-academics.The aim of this innovative and collaborative Fellowship is to address these gaps. It is focused squarely on public (i.e. attitudes toward the EU) and party-based Euroscepticism (i.e. electoral and membership support for parties such as Ukip and the strategies and messages of such groups). What are the drivers of Eurosceptic attitudes and public support for openly Eurosceptic political parties such as Ukip? What groups in society are especially receptive to Eurosceptic messages and campaigns? How do Eurosceptic attitudes vary across social classes, generations, ethnic groups and regions? What impact is party-based Euroscepticism having on our party system? And how might policy makers, practitioners, the media and public make sense of this challenge and navigate the associated issues? Answering these questions in an accessible and outward-facing manner will significantly inform the wider national debate about the future of the UK in a changing Europe.To do so, the Fellowship draws upon and updates recent academic research on these questions that has only just begun to impact upon non-academic communities. It will add new data to existing datasets that are centred on these questions and then, with the ESRC and the London-based think tank Chatham House, communicate the power of social science through a series of high profile and accessible outputs. Workshops with different groups of stakeholders, a series of evidence briefings, blogs, a final report, an accompanying launch event and social media will all be used to disseminate social science research on these areas to a wide and diverse audience.