Fighting for Europe: The EU's Democratic Pull Phenomenon in Ukraine, Poland and Belarus
研究发现，支持欧盟入盟或留欧的普通公民，其驱动力主要来自对自由民主价值观的认同，而非物质利益；这一现象在乌克兰、波兰、白俄罗斯及其他欧盟邻国和成员国中均存在。
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 the key driver for those already in the Union wanting to stay in. Employing national surveys and regression analyses, this article shows that (a) not only is a shift to supporting EU accession accompanied by citizens also moving towards supporting democracy in Ukraine; (b) this EU democratic pull phenomenon can also be identified amongst citizens of other EU neighbourhood countries, as well as in EU member states.