Does Left/Right Structure Party Positions on European Integration?

Hooghe, Liesbet; Marks, Gary; Wilson, Carole J.

doi:10.1177/001041402236310

Cited by 1,163 publications

(805 citation statements)

References 41 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

729

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…In earlier stages of the European project, as most political parties converged toward an EU-positive position, the EU dimension was far less salient to domestic and European electoral competition (Hooghe et al, 2002). In this context, previous research found that attitudes towards the EU were at best weak predictors of electoral behaviour in EP elections (de Vries and Hobolt, 2012;Hobolt and Wittrock, 2011).…”

Section: European-level Versus National Political Competitionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Social media and political communication in the 2014 elections to the European Parliament

et al. 2016

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Social media play an increasingly important part in the communication strategies of political campaigns by reflecting information about the policy preferences and opinions of political actors and their public followers. In addition, the content of the messages provides rich information about the political issues and the framing of those issues during elections, such as whether contested issues concern Europe or rather extend pre-existing national debates. In this study, we survey the European landscape of social media using tweets originating from and referring to political actors during the 2014 European Parliament election campaign. We describe the language and national distribution of the messages, the relative volume of different types of communications, and the factors that determine the adoption and use of social media by the candidates. We also analyze the dynamics of the volume and content of the communications over the duration of the campaign with reference to both the EU integration dimension of the debate and the prominence of the most visible list-leading candidates. Our findings indicate that the lead candidates and their televised debate had a prominent influence on the volume and content of communications, and that the content and emotional tone of communications more reflects preferences along the EU dimension of political contestation rather than classic national issues relating to left-right differences. In this paper we map the usage of social media in the 2014 European Parliament (EP) election focusing on Twitter, including an analysis of the networks of followers, the usage of national and cross-national hashtags related to the EU, and the types of Twitter communication. We focus on Twitter because it is the most widely adopted platform by politicians for the purposes of personal promotion, diffusing policy positions, mobilization and because it enables a more direct and interactive engagement with the public. Applying sentiment analysis to the text of the Tweets, we also assess various levels of sentiment associated with particular concepts or individuals or countries. Finally, by looking at the associations of message content with external policy measures of candidate parties, we are able to map content and associations within the text to get a picture of the dialogue across the Euro-

show abstract

Section: European-level Versus National Political Competitionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Social media and political communication in the 2014 elections to the European Parliament

et al. 2016

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Therefore news coverage in the media used by a voter of a party's stances on the leftright dimension is expected to increase that voter's likelihood to vote for that party. The same is expected to hold for news about the cultural GALTAN dimension (Hooghe, Marks, & Wilson, 2002;Kriesi et al, 2006Kriesi et al, , 2008, although the latter is more often debated (Van der Brug & Van Spanje, 2009).…”

Section: Electoral Consequences Of Party Emphasis On Old Issue Dimensmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…The significant logistic regression coefficients show that reports in the media used by voter about party positioning on the left-right dimension (H2a) and on the cultural dimension (H2b) increase the likelihood to vote for these parties. The most likely underlying mechanism is that voters will reward parties who succeed in getting media coverage for their owned issues, which are usually either left or right (Budge & Farlie, 1983), or either Green, Alternative and Libertarian or Traditional, Authoritarian and Nationalist (Hooghe et al, 2002). Because national parties are not portrayed as powerful players in EU news, we expected a negative effect on the vote of the news about parties addressing the EU, the euro crisis, or the Ukraine conflict.…”

Section: Effects Of Political Newsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of the Explosion of EU News on Voter Choice in the 2014 EU Elections

Kleinnijenhuis

Atteveldt

2016

PaG

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The European elections in 2014 were the first to be held after a long period in which EU-related news was prominent in the media. They were held after years of daily news about the euro crisis and after months of news about the popular uprising in the Ukraine against president Yanukovych, who had refused to sign the association agreement with the EU. This could have invited political parties to overcome the usual problem of low salience of EU issues by strongly profiling themselves on EU issues. Turnout at the 2014 EU elections, however, remained low, hinting that parties were unable to convert the attention for European issues into enthusiasm for their party at the European elections. This paper asks how vote choice was influenced by party campaigning on EU related issues. A news effects analysis based on a content analysis of Dutch newspapers and television, and on a panel survey among Dutch voters revealed that EU issues functioned as wedge issues: the more strongly parties were associated in the news with the euro crisis and the Ukraine, the less they succeeded in mobilizing voters.

show abstract

“…Heath et al (1994) refer to this scale as Socialist/laisez faire, we deem this confusing and changed it to the more commonly used economic left-right dimension (e.g. Hooghe, Marks, & Wilson, 2002). 2.…”

Section: Notesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparing protests and demonstrators in times of austerity: regular and occasional protesters in universalistic and particularistic mobilisations

Cameselle

Gómez

Stekelenburg

et al. 2017

Social Movement Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The recent economic crisis shaped a new wave of protest in Europe mobilising thousands of people. Austerity measures brought not only the 'usual suspects' onto the streets, they also awoke less frequent demonstrators. What brought all these people to the streets? Are their motivations the same for participation in all demonstrations? We compare participants in two types of mobilisations against austerity: those called particularistic (which are reactions to particular anti-austerity issues), and those universalistic (which address much broader issues such as questioning the political system). We also compare two typologies of participants taking into account their participation history: regular and occasional protesters. Employing a two-by-two design defined by type of demonstration (Particularistic vs. Universalistic) and the individual's participation history (Occasionals vs. Regulars), we found that the differences between demonstrations were smaller than those within types of protesters. Nevertheless, even in this period of hardship, motivation to participate in particularistic or universalistic protests differ depending on the perceptions of political system, ideological positioning and organisational embeddedness. Interaction analyses showed that different levels of identity, trust in institutions and satisfaction with democracy are crucial in driving people to participate in different types of demonstrations as occasionals or regulars.

show abstract

Does Left/Right Structure Party Positions on European Integration?

Cited by 1,163 publications

References 41 publications

Social media and political communication in the 2014 elections to the European Parliament

Social media and political communication in the 2014 elections to the European Parliament

The Impact of the Explosion of EU News on Voter Choice in the 2014 EU Elections

Comparing protests and demonstrators in times of austerity: regular and occasional protesters in universalistic and particularistic mobilisations

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About