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100			_aGherghina, Sergiu and Tap,Paul _949971
245			_aConservatism, social isolation and political context: Why east Europeans would leave the EU in exit referendums
260			_aInternational Political Science Review
300			_a44(4), Sep, 2023: p.523-539
520			_aThe British decision to leave the European Union after the 2016 referendum raises questions about who could be next. This article analyzes why citizens in East European Member States would vote to leave the European Union in the event of further referendums. It proposes an analytical framework that seeks to explain this strong form of Euroscepticism through four variables that are rarely linked to the European Union: political apathy and alienation, dissatisfaction with domestic democracy and economy, conservative values, and social isolation. We use individual-level data from the 2018 wave of the European Social Survey to show that citizens’ conservative attitudes and social isolation are robust determinants of a potential European Union exit vote in Eastern Europe. We also identify several country-specific causes, which means that the European Union faces particular challenges across political settings.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01925121211061453
773			_aInternational Political Science Review
906			_aEUROPEAN UNION
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