German Parliamentary Party Groups in Europeanised Policymaking: Awakening from the Sleep? Institutions and Heuristics as MPs’ Resources

Kropp, Sabine

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“…Moreover, as indicated, this work typically assumes instead of showing empirically that political elites use heuristics. An exception to this last statement is Kropp (2010), who aims to demonstrate German MPs' reliance on heuristics when they scrutinize European Union (EU) policy-making. Kropp finds that MPs use a heuristic whenever they try to reduce complexity, but it remains unclear how exactly she established this.…”

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“…Much literature focuses on the heuristics voters use, for instance, in their information search (Bartels, 1996; Redlawsk, 2004) or preference formation (Bang Petersen, 2015). Compared to this large literature that examines empirically the heuristics voters apply, the body of work studying empirically the heuristics applied by political elites —for example, members of cabinet, party leaders, or members of parliament (MPs)—is much more scant (exceptions include Böhmelt et al, 2016; Jacobs, 2011; Kropp, 2010; Laver and Sergenti, 2012; Weyland, 2007, 2014). 1 Political elites make judgments and decisions in an environment that differs from that of ordinary citizens.…”

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Heuristics and Political Elites’ Judgment and Decision-Making

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2018

Political Studies Review

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It is broadly assumed that political elites (e.g. party leaders) regularly rely on heuristics in their judgments or decision-making. In this article, I aim to bring together and discuss the scattered literature on this topic. To address the current conceptual unclarity, I discuss two traditions on heuristics: (1) the heuristics and biases (H&B) tradition pioneered by Kahneman and Tversky and (2) the fast and frugal heuristics (F&F) tradition pioneered by Gigerenzer et al. I propose to concentrate on two well-defined heuristics from the H&B tradition-availability and representativeness-to empirically assess when political elites rely on heuristics and thereby understand better their judgments and decisions. My review of existing studies supports the notion that political elites use the availability heuristic and possibly the representativeness one for making complex decisions under uncertainty. It also reveals that besides this, we still know relatively little about when political elites use which heuristic and with what effect(s). Therefore, I end by proposing an agenda for future research.

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Section: Political Elites' Reliance On Heuristics and Their Effectsmentioning

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Heuristics and Political Elites’ Judgment and Decision-Making

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2018

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“…Jene Lücken zu schließen, erscheint umso dringlicher, als im umfassenden Programm der Europäisierungsforschung (Featherstone u. Radaelli 2003;Schmidt u. Radaelli 2004;Jacquot u. Woll 2003) seit Jahren angemahnt wird, kognitive und akteurspezifische Variablen zu berücksichtigen, um die eigentliche Reichweite na-tionaler Anpassungsprozesse ergründen zu können: Akteure handeln auf der Grundlage von "belief systems", von Vorurteilen, einfachen Faustregeln und von Wissensbeständen, die einer faktischen Europäisierung Grenzen setzen oder diese erst ermöglichen (Kropp 2010).…”

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“…von Oertzen 2006). Die meisten Untersuchungen zu diesem Thema beziehen sich, um den empirischen Aufwand zu begrenzen, zumeist nur auf Rollenorientierungen von Abgeordneten (Patzelt 1997;Patzelt 2007;Blomgren u. Rozenberg 2012;Ilonszki u. Jáger 2011;Jenny et al 2006;Lengyel 2011;Mansfeldová 2011;Kropp 2010) oder von Beamten (Schwanke u. Ebinger 2006;Ebinger u. Schmitt 2010;Christensen 1991;Geuijen et al 2008). Bei letzteren erfolgte dies zudem häufig, ohne dass europarelevante Einstellungen berücksichtigt wurden, da für Längsschnittvergleiche bestehende Items wiederholt abgefragt wurden.…”

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“…Deutlich spärlicher fallen jedoch Verbindungen zur EU-Kommission oder zu anderen europäischen Institutionen und Akteuren aus (Miklin u. Crum 2010). Neuere Untersuchungen verweisen ferner auf die Bedeutung von NGOs als Informationslieferanten und strategische Verbündete der Abgeordneten (Kropp 2010 (Duina u. Raunio 2007;de Ruiter , 2011. Welchen Einfluss die Parlamentsseite an dieser Stelle geltend zu machen vermag und inwiefern dort effektive Kontrolle und Formen "weicher" Mandatserteilungen gegenüber dem Ministerium stattfinden, ist bislang nur wenig erforscht.…”

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Von den Schwierigkeiten, Zusammengehöriges zu vereinen – Nationale Parlamente und Exekutiven als Gegenstand der Europäisierungsforschung

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2012

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This article presents a critical overview of the state of research on the Europeanization of national parliaments and executives. We start from the assumption that patterns of governance as well as developments relevant to democratic theory can only be grasped comprehensively if parliamentary studies and research on public administrations are interlinked. Even though both strands of research have witnessed considerable empirical progress over the last decade, most studies still limit themselves either on the parliamentary or on the administrative side. Considering these ‚traditional' approaches, we review some of the most important outcomes of research on the Europeanization of national parliaments and administrations in a first step. In a second step, we discuss four ‚blind spots', which have so far remained unaddressed in most research agendas: the inclusion of actor-centered variables, executive-legislative interactions, policy-specific comparisons as well as the analysis of different parliamentary functions. We argue that eliminating these blind spots can lead to a deeper understanding of governance patterns in the EU multilevel system and conclude with calling for developing a comprehensive research agenda which takes into account these gaps.

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The Importance of EU Issues in German Elections

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Debus

2023

Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics

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The decision-making processes employed by German politicians and voters in elections to the German Bundestag matter decisively for policy-making at the European level. When casting their vote, German voters choose their representatives and are in a position to use federal elections to keep European Union (EU) policy accountable and better defend their national interests. Nevertheless, the German press and political parties—with the exception of those on the radical right, like the Alternative for Germany (AfD—Alternative für Deutschland)—tend not to use EU issues to mobilize voters and do not politicize EU integration policy. This pro-European vocation would suggest there is no place for EU issue voting in Germany; however, this is not the case. This contribution disentangles the apparent consensus about the EU and assesses the nuances that indicate the Europeanization of German elections. First, we find that parties behave strategically in respect of the prominence they give to European integration issues and in the way they talk about them. Second, we provide evidence supporting the influence of EU issue voting in the last federal elections. Finally, we show how the opinions of individuals on immigration policy moderate the effect of support for the EU on the vote.

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German Parliamentary Party Groups in Europeanised Policymaking: Awakening from the Sleep? Institutions and Heuristics as MPs’ Resources

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