Overview
- Argues to focus on national elections and the national political environment to understand how EU accountability works
- Establishes EU issue voting using a simultaneous online survey experiment in six EU countries
- Shows the EU issue matters for voting in challenger as well as mainstream parties across Europe
- Is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics (PSEUP)
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About this book
This open access book focuses on the importance that EU politicization has gained in European democracies and the consequences for voting behaviour in six countries of the EU: Belgium, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. Most of the studies which research the way the EU is being legitimised focus on the European Parliament elections. In this book we argue that to understand how EU accountability works, it is necessary to focus instead on national elections and the national political environment. Through a detailed, multimethod analysis this book establishes rigorously the paths of European accountability at the national level, its propitious contexts in the media and parliamentary debates, and whether the paths are similar from Greece to Germany. The findings have implications for both national and European Union democracy, underlining the importance that national institutions have in enabling citizens to hold the EU accountable.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Reviews
“This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of how the European Union influences national politics and how the national response to Europe can serve as a channel of accountability in the European Union. The authors engage fundamental questions relating to national elections and European issues with an eye to explaining the dynamics of EU political support and opposition in Belgium, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. The authors come to grips with these questions using extensive original data on EU coverage in the national media, parliamentary debates, and online surveys. In short, this volume is a signal contribution to our understanding of EU politicization.” (Gary Marks, Burton Craige Professor, UNC Chapel Hill, USA, and Professor, Robert Schuman Centre, EUI, Italy)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Marina Costa Lobo is Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon in Portugal, and Director of the European Political Science Review.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Impact of EU Politicisation on Voting Behaviour in Europe
Editors: Marina Costa Lobo
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29187-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29186-9Published: 06 May 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29189-0Published: 06 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-29187-6Published: 05 May 2023
Series ISSN: 2662-5873
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5881
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 337
Number of Illustrations: 67 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Electoral Politics, European Politics, Political Communication, Political Sociology