Domestic contestation of the European Union

Hobolt, Sara B.; Rodón, Toni

doi:10.1080/13501763.2019.1701066

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“…Therefore, we suggest that this also enhances the importance of left-right positions when explaining voting in the Council (de Vries, 2010; Hooghe and Marks, 2009). The increase in polarisation, subsequently, leads to greater competition between centre-left parties that assume traditional left positions (pro-welfare, negative to economic liberalisation) and centre-right parties that take traditional right-wing positions (welfare-sceptical, positive to market-liberalism) (Abou-Chadi and Wagner, 2020; Hobolt and Rodon, 2020).…”

Section: Enhanced Left-right Party Competitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Oppositional voting in the Council of the EU between 2010 and 2019: Evidence for differentiated politicisation

Pircher

Farjam

2021

European Union Politics

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This article presents a new and previously unchartered dataset on roll call votes for all 28 member states in the Council of the EU between 2010 and 2019 and studies the effects of politicisation on governments' oppositional voting in the different policy areas. We contribute to the literature with two main findings. First, our study provides strong evidence for bottom-up politicisation, where Euroscepticism and the left-right positions of national political parties strongly affect governments' voting in the Council. Second, we provide new evidence for a form of differentiated politicisation where ideological standpoints of political parties in government and opposition have different effects on oppositional voting in the various policy areas.

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Section: Enhanced Left-right Party Competitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Oppositional voting in the Council of the EU between 2010 and 2019: Evidence for differentiated politicisation

Pircher

Farjam

2021

European Union Politics

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“…For the particular case of the supply-side analysis, we were able to show that a clear sense of Europeanness was existent especially in those countries where European issues dominated the general political debate -a finding which should be further investigated in the light of the research on the politicisation of Europe in national (Hutter et al, 2016) and in EP elections (Braun and Grande, 2021). If European issues become more contested within the national context (Hobolt and Rodon, 2020), this will, according to our findings, contribute to more Europeanised EP elections. Moreover, this double perspective brought to light that in the two countries, where the debate over European issues was extensive (France and the United Kingdom), genuine interest in EU politics was also a mobilising factor for respondents -but, interestingly, this was also the case in the two countries that saw less (Austria) or even very little significant debate over European issues (Germany).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 68%

The Europeanness of the 2019 European Parliament elections and the mobilising power of European issues

Braun

2021

Politics

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Less researched than the second-order character of elections to the European Parliament (EP) is the ‘Europeanness’ of European elections and its implications for voter participation in these elections. This article aims to fill this gap by studying the Europeanness of the public debate in the run-up to the 2019 EP elections and the mobilizing power of European issues in these electoral contests. In doing this, we draw on a new data set covering intriguing aspects of the 2019 EP elections. The findings of the empirical analysis of media and survey data indicate that the elections to the EP were more European contests than ever before in the history of these elections – yet this is not true in the same way for all of the countries under consideration. Moreover, the Europeanness of electorates, measured as genuine orientations towards EU politics, matters for electoral participation and thus has the power to mobilize citizens. Nonetheless, national factors still play an important role in these elections. These findings are insightful for the future assessment of EP elections and the scholarly debate over multi-level electoral politics in Europe.

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“…The overall results from 2019 further support this more optimistic outlook on political engagement in Europe, where voters still were less likely to vote following periods of numerous elections, but the heightened politicization of the EU and the election raised the salience of the election and likely contributed to the increase in overall turnout. As Hobolt and Rodon (2020) point out, the domestic contestation of European politics has made EU governance more challenging and has had far-reaching consequences for the European polity. Perhaps this domestic contestation could also be increasing interest in the EU as evidenced by the increased turnout in 2019, which as this study suggests, may supersede the negative consequences of frequent elections.…”

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confidence: 99%

Disengaging elections? Political interest, number of elections, and turnout in elections to the European Parliament

Nonnemacher

2021

European Union Politics

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Since direct elections to the European Parliament began in 1979, variations in voting behavior in European Parliament elections from national elections have raised interesting questions about political behavior. I add to a growing literature that explores turnout in European Parliament elections by focusing on the count of national elections between European Parliament elections. Through a cross-national study of elections, I find that turnout decreases in the European Parliament contest following cycles with numerous national contests. Then, using data from the European Election Study, I argue that this is the result of frequent elections decreasing turnout particularly among already low interest voters who stay home. My findings have implications for how formal rules of multi-level elections shape political behavior more generally and voter fatigue in particular.

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Domestic contestation of the European Union

Cited by 13 publications

References 19 publications

Oppositional voting in the Council of the EU between 2010 and 2019: Evidence for differentiated politicisation

Oppositional voting in the Council of the EU between 2010 and 2019: Evidence for differentiated politicisation

The Europeanness of the 2019 European Parliament elections and the mobilising power of European issues

Disengaging elections? Political interest, number of elections, and turnout in elections to the European Parliament

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