Fighting for Europe: The EU's Democratic Pull Phenomenon in Ukraine, Poland and Belarus
Journal: JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies
Year: 2024

Abstract What drives ordinary citizens to want their country to join or stay in the European Union (EU)? Whilst scholarship addressed value‐based dispositions as drivers of pro‐EU positions, material benefits dominate explanations of support for EU accession and membership. New research suggests that it is precisely the growing import of being an adherent of liberal democratic values that drove citizens in countries as disparate as Ukraine, Poland and Belarus to support EU accession and remained