Table of Contents

1: Pedro C. Magalhães, David Sanders, and Gábor Tóka: Introduction: Citizens and the European Polity
2: Paolo Bellucci, Vincenzo Memoli, David Sanders: The Determinants of Democracy Satisfaction in Europe
3: David Sanders and Paolo Bellucci: Informal Political Engagement in Europe, 1975-2007
4: Hermann Schmitt and André Freire: Ideological Polarisation: Different Worlds in East and West
5: Markus Steinbrecher, Hans Rattinger: Electoral Turnout at the National and European Levels
6: Pierangelo Isernia, Irena Fiket, Fabio Serricchio, Bettina Westle: But Still it Does Not Move: Functional and Identity-Based Determinants of European Identity
7: Mariano Torcal, Jordi Muñoz, and Eduard Bonet: Trust in the European Parliament: From Affective Heuristics to Rational Cueing
8: Andrija Henjak, Gabor Toka and David Sanders: Support for European Integration
9: Pedro C. Magalhães: Europe À La Carte? Public Support for Policy Integration in an Enlarged European Union
10: David Sanders, Pedro Magalhaes, Gabor Toka: Summary and Conclusions: Europe in Equilibrium - Unresponsive Inertia or Vibrant Resilience?
Appendices
Bibliography

About the Author

David Sanders specialises in the analysis of public opinion and electoral behaviour in the UK and in Europe. He is coauthor of Political Choice in Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and of Performance Politics and the British Voter (Oxford University Press, 2009). He has been a co-Director of the British Election Study since 2000. He is a Professor of Government at the University of Essex. Pedro C. Magalhães specialises in the
study of public opinion, voting behaviour, judicial behaviour and the design and effects of political institutions. He is one of the founders and coordinators of the Portuguese Election Study and a member of the planning
committee of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, Comparative National Elections Project and the European Election Study. He is the author of more than fifty articles and book chapters in scholarly journals and edited volumes. He is a Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Gabor Toka specializes in voting behaviour and political attitude formation, especially in a comparative perspective and with respect to the impact of national
institutions and political knowledge. He was a founding member of the Comparative Study of Electoral System project and served as principal investigator for comparative and national election surveys in five
countries. He is co-author of Post-Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation, and Inter-Party Cooperation (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and author of over five dozen articles in scholarly journals and edited volumes. He is a Professor at the Department of Political Science, Central European University, Budapest.