Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46408 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3369
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We study the impact of political knowledge on the attitudes of European citizens towards the possible distribution of responsibilities between European level institutions and national governments in three policy areas: foreign policy, defence and immigration policy. The hypothesis tested is that if citizens are not knowledgeable about how the EU works, they are more likely to be wrong about the consequences of a mismatch in the allocation of competences. In order to identify the causal effect of political knowledge on attitudes we use an instrumental variables approach. The results show that more informed citizens have a considerably higher probability of being in favour of the process of EU integration.
Subjects: 
European Union
information
attitudes
political economy
JEL: 
H70
D80
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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