The dynamics of EU attitudes and their effects on voting
Autor: | C.H. de Vreese, Andreas C. Goldberg |
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Přispěvatelé: | Political Communication & Journalism (ASCoR, FMG) |
Rok vydání: | 2018 |
Předmět: |
021110 strategic
defence & security studies media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies Comparative politics 02 engineering and technology 16. Peace & justice 0506 political science Extant taxon Dynamics (music) Voting Political science Political economy Political Science and International Relations European integration Referendum 050602 political science & public administration Relevance (law) Static data media_common |
Zdroj: | Acta Politica Acta Politica, 53(4), 542-568. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. |
ISSN: | 1741-1416 0001-6810 |
Popis: | In referendums on issues of European integration, it is often unclear how important attitudes toward Europe are and whether these attitudes change during the campaign. Extant research showing the importance of EU attitudes particularly in salient and contested referendums has often had to rely on static data and limited conceptualizations of EU attitudes. This potentially underestimates the role of (different types of) EU attitudes and hampers the ability to assess the dynamics of them. For the analysis of dynamics in EU attitudes, we mainly rely on pre- and post-waves for the Dutch Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement referendum, which extends a panel study leading back to the EP14 elections. This allows us to assess both long-term changes of EU attitudes since the last EP elections and also during the referendum campaign. We examine the effect of campaign-induced attitude changes for the referendum vote, while controlling for other relevant determinants. Our findings first show significant changes in EU attitudes during the referendum campaign, and second, highlight the relevance of some of these changes for the referendum vote. Both strengthening and especially emotional attitudes play respective significant roles, with the latter being in part dependent on media exposure. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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