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Support for Foreign Ownership and Integration in Eastern Europe

Economic Interests, Ideological Commitments, and Democratic Context

Robert Rohrschneider

Indiana University

Stephen Whitefield

Oxford University

Western 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 ideals; (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.

Key Words: European Union • foreign ownership • democracy • ideological values • interests

Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 37, No. 3, 313-339 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0010414003262071
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