Electoral mobilization, party support and EU issue voting: an analysis of five countries

This article analyzes the influence of the EU party-voter distance on party support moderated by the impact of EU salience. To this goal, we focus on the party-voter dyad and we analyze patterns of EU issue voting in first-order national elections in five EU countries (Austria, France, Germany, Ital...

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Veröffentlicht in:Italian Political Science Review 2023-07, Vol.53 (2), p.220-238
Hauptverfasser: Carrieri, Luca, Conti, Nicolò, Morini, Marco
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:This article analyzes the influence of the EU party-voter distance on party support moderated by the impact of EU salience. To this goal, we focus on the party-voter dyad and we analyze patterns of EU issue voting in first-order national elections in five EU countries (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands) between 2017 and 2018. We make use of a combination of data from CHES and a public opinion survey to construct the distance measures, and a mix of CHES and Twitter data to measure EU salience. We show that voters are mobilized on the EU, with EU party positions operating as a driving factor of the voting preferences of the electorate and EU salience moderating this relationship.
ISSN:0048-8402
2057-4908
DOI:10.1017/ipo.2023.1