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100			_aRohrs Chneider, Robert
245			_aSupport for foreign ownership and integration in Eastern Europe: economic interests, ideological commitments, and democratic context
260			_c2004
300			_ap.313-39.
362			_aApr
520			_aWestern models of popular support for economic integration usually stress costs and benefits. This article suggests that one cannot ignore the predominance of socialist-economic values in East-Central Europe. Consequently, it is argued and supported that (a) individual-level support for foreign ownership is best explained by ideological commitments to market ideas; (b) publics in more economically liberal countries more strongly support the idea of foreign ownership; and (c) citizens who reside in democratic countries, which experience greater controversy over foreign ownership, are less likely to accept the idea of foreign ownership just as they have a more negative image of the European Union. Theoretically, the study documents the limited applicability to Eastern Europe of Western-based models. Practically, it helps explain opposition to foreign ownership and, more generally, increasing controversy over the EU in first wave accession states. - Reproduced.
650			_aEuropean Union
700			_aWhitefield, Stephen
773			_aComparative Political Studies
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