ABSTRACT
Thus far we have uncovered two kinds of variables that "work" in predicting the attitudes of our respondents towards integration, and, especially, the idea of political unification: nationality and interest in European problems. The fact that one is an accident of birth and the other a deep-rooted psychological orientation puts us in a difficult position in that these variables do a better job of predicting than explaining. In dealing with nationality we made some progress by observing that not only are there differences between the old and new members of the EC, but also between the large and small countries. As for interest in European problems, our major point is that this kind of predisposition is fundamentally difficult to manipulate by known means of cognitive mobilization. Furthermore, nationality and interest interact, in that interest works better in some countries than in others as was the case in the contrasting examples of Britain and Denmark.
