Impact of EU Politicisation on Voting Behaviour in Europe
Impact of EU Politicisation on Voting Behaviour in Europe This open access book focuses on the importance that EU politicization has gained in European democracies and the consequences for voting…
Specifikacia Impact of EU Politicisation on Voting Behaviour in Europe
Impact of EU Politicisation on Voting Behaviour in Europe
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. 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. Most of the studies which research the way the EU is being legitimised focus on the European Parliament elections.
The findings have implications for both national and European Union democracy, underlining the importance that national 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.