Sleeping Giant: Fact or Fairytale?: How European Integration Affects National Elections

Do attitudes towards European integration influence vote choice in national elections — a phenomenon I refer to as European Union (EU) issue voting? Evidence concerning EU issue voting is thus far mixed. Some scholars conclude that an electoral connection exists between European and national politic...

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Autor: de Vries, Catherine
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:España
Institución:IE
Repositorio:Repositorio IE
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ie.edu:20.500.14417/4068
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1177/1465116507079546
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/4068
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1465116507079546
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:59 Ciencia Política
ODS 10 - Reducción de las desigualdades
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Sumario:Do attitudes towards European integration influence vote choice in national elections — a phenomenon I refer to as European Union (EU) issue voting? Evidence concerning EU issue voting is thus far mixed. Some scholars conclude that an electoral connection exists between European and national politics, whereas others claim that European integration has had very few observable effects on national elections. A resolution emerges when the conditional nature of EU issue voting is acknowledged. Specifically, EU issue voting is more likely to occur in elections in which both the extent of partisan conflict over European integration and the degree of EU issue salience among voters are high. Using a conditional logit model, I illustrate the conditional nature of EU issue voting by comparing UK, Danish, Dutch and German elections between 1992 and 2002.