ABSTRACT

Introduction The scholarship on Euroscepticism has developed in close step with the phenomenon itself. In this, is reflects the broader development of research around the European integration process, from Hoffman’s turn in the 1960s to the rise of new institutionalism in the 1990s: the nascent and evolving political system has required a constant adjustment of approach by academics to capture each new step. Euroscepticism is a case in point, with a handful of individuals and of pieces of research in the 1990s developing into a wide-ranging, diverse and ever richer literature today.