1. (...) // 2. The current European Union as a confederal consociational system: theoretical and methodological considerations // 2.1. Introduction // 2.2. Supranational approaches // 2.3. Intergovernmental approaches // 2.4. Confederal consociational approaches // 2.4.1. Confederal consociational characteristics // 2.4.2. Multi-level attachment // 2.5. Explanatory modelling // 2.5.1. Principal component analysis and LISREL modelling // 2.5.2. Structural variables: the socio-economic dimension and EU membership (2005) // 2.5.3. Public opinion variables: dimensions of post-materialism and negative views of globalisation (2005) // 3. Westward geopolitical orientation towards the European Union: explaining public opinion across post-communist countries in the 1990s (survey 1996) // 3.1. Introduction // 3.2. Geopolitical transition and options for the West and the East // 3.2.1. Different geopolitical and geo-economic options // 3.2.2. A "westward" transition: democratisation and economic liberalisation // 3.3. Explaining westward (EU) orientation in public opinion (LISREL modelling) // 3.3.1. Public opinion variable and structural variables // 3.3.2. Explanatory model // 3.4. Conclusions // 4. Eastern enlargement and public opinion regarding Czech membership (survey 2000) // 4.1. Introduction // 4.2. EU historical core, semi-peripheries and peripheries // 4.3. EU public opinion regarding Czech membership // 4.3.1. Structural variables // 4.3.2. Public opinion variables // 4.3.3. Explaining public opinion across the EU15 // 4.4. Changing public opinion in Czechia // 4.5. Conclusions // 5. Opposing public opinion regarding the draft of the EU constitution treaty (survey 2004) // 5.1. Introduction // 5.2. Some issues in debates on the proposed EU constitution // 5.3. Socio-economic and core-periphery patterns (2003-2004) // 5.4. Public opinion regarding the draft constitution //
5.4.1. Structural variables // 5.4.2. Public opinion variables // 5.4.3. Explaining opposing public opinion // 5.5. Conclusions // 6. Attitudes on energy consumption across the enlarged European Union: uncertainties under globalisation pressures (survey 2005) // 6.1. Introduction // 6.2. EU energy policy under pressure from globalisation and geopolitical considerations // 6.3. Public opinion and attitudes towards energy consumption: two polarisations // 6.4. An explanatory model of attitudes on energy consumption (LISREL modelling) // 6.4.1. Structural and public opinion variables // 6.4.2. Explaining attitudes on energy // 6.5. Conclusions // 7. Public opinion regarding the deepening and widening of the European Union and differentiated integration (survey 2005) // 7.1. Introduction // 7.2. Widening and deepening processes // 7.2.1. Differentiation in public opinion on widening (further enlargement) // 7.2.2. Differentiation in public opinion on deepening (a constitution) // 7.3. Differentiated integration: multi-speed or two-speed integration // 7.4. Postulated explanatory model (LISREL) // 7.4.1. Structural and public opinion variables // 7.4.2. Differentiation in reasons for an EU constitution // 7.4.3. Explaining differentiation in reasons for an EU constitution // 7.5. Conclusions // 8. Concluding remarks