good cause, to be left to the experts and to the elite. Until the mid-1960s, when the system of pillarisation1 was still in force, the general public was quite willing to leave politics to its pillarised elites (Catholic, Protestant, Socialist or Liberal-Conservative). Within the political elite, there was hardly any disagreement about European integration, and the general public played its role as a ‘captive audience’. In the mid-1960s, relations between the voters and the elite, and within the elite, became less predictable. New parties emerged, and ‘floating
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