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Fostering cooperation among local stakeholders is a core aim of place-based policies, and it can generate economic benefits and help restore a sense of agency in left-behind communities. However, relatively little is known about how to induce local cooperation in low-trust, institutionally weak areas. This article develops an integrated theoretical framework to help diagnose the precise obstacles to cooperation faced in different types of adverse settings. Such a diagnosis can help design tailored local- and macro-level policies to address the obstacles to local cooperation. The utility of the proposed framework is demonstrated using a medium-n comparative case study design.

The appeal of populism has been explained by individual preferences expressed along two dimensions: a left-right economic dimension and a cosmopolitan-traditionalist cultural dimension. However, this distinction has been contested by recent studies pointing out that economic and cultural factors reinforce each other in linking structural transformations, like globalisation and technological change, to populist political outcomes. Given the spatially uneven character of the effects of structural transformations, our contribution argues that 'place' should be a central category in the analysis of Eurosceptic populism. By focusing on place, it becomes easier to understand how material and identity-related factors interact in triggering a demand for populism, and how this interaction sets the ground for the reception of populist narratives in different locations. We set out a research agenda for improving our understanding of the political implications of local socio-economic trajectories in Western European left-behind areas, places in Central and Eastern Europe struggling since transition into democracy begun, Southern European locations hit by the Eurozone crisis, and beyond.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Images -- Chapter 1 The Setting: The Greco-German Affair on the Euro Stage -- Abstract -- 1.1 The Foundation of European Demoicracy -- 1.2 The Greco-German Affair and the Battlefield of Stories -- 1.3 Mutual Recognition and Its Denial -- 1.4 Rebuilding Trust -- Chapter 2 The Players: Greeks vs Germans -- Abstract -- 2.1 Of Greek Squanderers and German Misers -- The Good Life -- Conflicted Cheapskates -- Inequalities and Suffering -- The Age of the Lobster Pasta -- Blame Games -- Greece, Relentless Mirror -- 2.2 Swindlers vs. Hearts of Steel: Moralities of Rule of Law, Public Spirit, and Solidarity -- Greek Diseases -- Only Greeks? -- A Liar Will not Be Believed -- The Two Greeces -- Playing by the Rules -- Solidarity -- 2.3 Greece Mirror of German Demons -- Bankruptcy Greeks -- Traumas Resonating -- 2.4 Your History, My History -- Heir of Antiquity vs Err of Antiquity, and the War of Clichés -- German Guilt, German Debt, German Responsibility -- Lost in Translation -- Mirror, Mirror on the Wall -- Greek Historical Memory Revised -- 2.5 Power and Resistance -- German Despots and Their Greek Collaborators -- The Power of the Weak -- The Reluctant Hegemon -- With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility -- Chapter 3 The Name of the Game: Shaping Europe Through Self and Other -- Abstract -- 3.1 A Union of Prosperity? -- From Promise to Threat -- Bottomless Pit -- United in Fear? -- Cui Bono? -- 3.2 Europe Re-Nationalised? -- Germanisation, or Nationalisation? -- Community of Fate and Responsibility -- Mortal Europe, More Europe, and a Different Europe -- European Domestic Politics -- 3.3 Embodiment of Progress, Competent Governance and Modernisation? -- Saviours Without a Plan -- Markets as the Lords of Politics -- Europe as Moderniser

In explaining the outcome of the 2016 EU referendum in the United Kingdom, can theories emphasizing the importance of economic factors be reconciled with the fact that many people appeared to vote against their economic self-interest? This article approaches this puzzle through case study research that draws on fieldwork and a process of reciprocal knowledge exchange with local communities in five local authorities in England and Wales. It argues that the Leave vote can be attributed partly to political discontent associated with trajectories of relative economic decline and deindustrialization. Building on the growing literature about the role of narratives and discourses in navigating uncertainty, it contends that these localized economic experiences, interpreted through local-level narratives, paved the way for local-level discourses of resilience and nationwide optimistic messaging about the economic impacts of Brexit to resonate. Local and national-level discourses discounting the potential economic costs of leaving the European Union played a crucial role in giving precise, somewhat paradoxical, political content to the sense of discontent. The article contributes to the growing focus on place and community in understanding political behavior and invites further research on local discourses linking macro-level trajectories and micro-level voting decisions.

AbstractBased on comparative qualitative research in five local authority areas, this article argues that local context is key to understanding the roots of the U.K.'s crisis of political trust and the result of the 2016 E.U. referendum. The competing cultural and economic causes of discontent suggested by the literature were found to be deeply intertwined when analyzed from a local perspective. The sense of political disempowerment and negative attitudes toward migration were ingrained in and reinforced by locally specific socio‐economic and political trajectories. These experiences were articulated and amplified by dominant discourses, which channeled frustration against the political elite and the E.U. These populist narratives, promoted by the Leave campaign and the tabloid press, became dominant in certain areas, decisively shaping citizens' voting behavior. Overall, the article highlights the value of studying how local experiences and interpretations mediate the interplay of cultural and economic causes of discontent and political distrust.

In explaining the outcome of the 2016 EU referendum in the United Kingdom, can theories emphasizing the importance of economic factors be reconciled with the fact that many people appeared to vote against their economic self-interest? This article approaches this puzzle through case study research that draws on fieldwork and a process of reciprocal knowledge exchange with local communities in five local authorities in England and Wales. It argues that the Leave vote can be attributed partly to political discontent associated with trajectories of relative economic decline and deindustrialization. Building on the growing literature about the role of narratives and discourses in navigating uncertainty, it contends that these localized economic experiences, interpreted through local-level narratives, paved the way for local-level discourses of resilience and nationwide optimistic messaging about the economic impacts of Brexit to resonate. Local and national-level discourses discounting the potential economic costs of leaving the European Union played a crucial role in giving precise, somewhat paradoxical, political content to the sense of discontent. The article contributes to the growing focus on place and community in understanding political behavior and invites further research on local discourses linking macro-level trajectories and micro-level voting decisions.

Based on comparative qualitative research in five local authority areas, this article argues that local context is key to understanding the roots of the U.K.'s crisis of political trust and the result of the 2016 E.U. referendum. The competing cultural and economic causes of discontent suggested by the literature were found to be deeply intertwined when analyzed from a local perspective. The sense of political disempowerment and negative attitudes toward migration were ingrained in and reinforced by locally specific socio-economic and political trajectories. These experiences were articulated and amplified by dominant discourses, which channeled frustration against the political elite and the E.U. These populist narratives, promoted by the Leave campaign and the tabloid press, became dominant in certain areas, decisively shaping citizens' voting behavior. Overall, the article highlights the value of studying how local experiences and interpretations mediate the interplay of cultural and economic causes of discontent and political distrust