If we take a random citizen living in a democratic country, chances are she has to deal with
several layers of government simultaneously. At the very least, local and national institutions …

There is a growing recognition that trust attitudes towards national and European institutions
are systematically related. Despite substantial research interest, the exact nature of this …

The financial crisis has affected trust in national and European governmental institutions in
different ways. This contribution analyses the determinants of trust in the national and …

Local human rights organizations (LHROs) are crucial allies in international efforts to
promote human rights. Without support from organized civil society, efforts by transnational …

The paper introduces a new technique for growing trees for ordinal responses in the model-
based framework. We consider the class of cub mixtures which is particularly appropriate to …

Political regimes draw legitimacy from diffuse political support. How diffuse is support for the
European Union? By focusing on cross-sectional data, the extant literature fails to …

Immigration is one of the important issues that influence attitudes toward the EU. It is
unclear, however, what causal mechanisms explain this link. Is the causal mechanism …

The long-term sustainability of the euro and the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU)
depends heavily on their ability to attract widespread public support. The support shown for …

This report outlines the steps taken to design and implement a stakeholder survey on trust
and distrust in European regulatory governance and ultimately create a large, multi-actor …

This report examines how much patterns of political participation have changed in the last
two decades in Europe and whether any such changes can reasonably be linked to the …