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Second-order Economic Voting in Elections to the European Parliament
- Source :
- Papers, Vol 109, Iss 2 (2024)
- Publication Year :
- 2024
- Publisher :
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2024.
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Abstract
- When examining citizens’ behaviour in elections to the European Parliament (EP), second order elections (SOE) and economic voting (EV) have overlooked each other as alien traditions. However, they should not be seen as incompatible: voters may use EP elections to support national incumbents but, at the same time, this support may be the result of an economic assessment. This paper blends both frameworks and finds that, even though EP elections are not intended to evaluate domestic politics, voters use them to reward or punish national incumbents (i.e. SOE) for the state of the economy (i.e. EV); a behaviour referred to here as ‘second-order economic voting’. The predominance of second-order EV is relevant for EU politics. If EP elections enhance national incumbents’ accountability while the European executive remains unacknowledged, this could be disturbing for European economic institutions.
Details
- Language :
- Catalan; Valencian, English, Spanish; Castilian
- ISSN :
- 02102862, 20139004, and 05090644
- Volume :
- 109
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Papers
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.7723f05090644f4fa18069dcae794083
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/papers.3159