17:45 - 20:00
Thursday-Panel
Chair/s:
Shared by Panellists
Discussant/s:
Adriana Bunea
Meeting Room G

Jeffrey Nonnemacher
Supranationalism: Attachment to Europe and Support for Transnational Political Issues

Maximilian Haag, Constantin Kaplaner, Steffen Hurka
From bill to law: how the complexity of policy proposals evolves over the European Union’s legislative process

Anastasia Ershova, Aleksandra Khokhlova, Nikoleta Yordanova
Curb EU Enthusiasm: Categorising the Commission’s legislative ambition.

Verena Kunz
Responding to Change? Analysing the Complexity of European Parliament Election Manifestos

Constantin Schäfer
What kind of EU do the citizens want? Studying multi-dimensional institutional preferences using conjoint survey experiments
Supranationalism: Attachment to Europe and Support for Transnational Political Issues
Jeffrey Nonnemacher
University of Pittsburgh

How does supranational attachments influence attitudes on political issues such as immigration and climate change? Scholarly work on supranational identities such as European identity have predominantly focused on opinions towards the EU and EU-related policies. Yet, the literature lacks an understanding of how these supranational attachments influence opinions on other political dimensions, such as the emerging transnational cleavage. I argue that feeling attached to the EU demonstrates an attachment to a political community that transcends borders, which is then reflected in opinions on transnational issues. Using data from the European Social Survey, I show that attachment to the EU increases support for immigration, concern about climate change, and support for policies designed to combat climate change. These findings have important implications for how we understand attitudes on increasingly salient issues in European politics as well as how attachments inform those attitudes.