Drivers of political parties’ voting behaviour in European economic governance: the ultimate decline of the economic cleavage?

Maatsch, Aleksandra

doi:10.1080/01402382.2015.1129491

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“…As these discussions have been politicised along national lines (cf. Maatsch, 2016), our sample includes parliaments from countries with varied positions in the debate, creditor (Austria and Germany) as well as debtor countries (Ireland), and a large country (Germany) as well as two smaller ones (Austria and Ireland). Altogether, the three parliaments dedicated 11 plenary debates to the EFSF in 2010 and 2011: three in Austria, four in Germany, and four in Ireland (see Online Appendix 1).…”

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Transnational Representation in EU National Parliaments: Concept, Case Study, Research Agenda

Kinski

Crum

2019

Political Studies

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This article introduces the notion of ‘transnational representation’ to refer to claims by national parliamentarians on behalf of citizens of other national constituencies. Thus defined, transnational representation combines insights from the constructivist turn in the theory of democratic representation with a renewed focus on national parliaments as the prime institutional sites of representation. A focus on transnational representation advances the debate on democratic representation in an age of internationalisation in two ways. First, it allows for a systematic and comparative analysis of how representation in parliaments responds to internationalisation. Second, it suggests a new perspective on the possible alignment of political representation with the range of affected interests. We illustrate these two claims with a case study of transnational representation in parliamentary debates on the European Financial Stability Facility and by outlining an agenda for further research.

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Section: Case Study and Expectationsmentioning

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Transnational Representation in EU National Parliaments: Concept, Case Study, Research Agenda

Kinski

Crum

2019

Political Studies

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“…According to Birch (1964) and Mair (2011), governing-party responsibility implies prudence, consistency, and predictability in their actions over a longer period of time, as well as a sense of duty in respecting international norms and commitments that have been made by previous governments. The literature notes that in a situation of conflict between the terms of an international agreement and voters' preferences, governing parties are more likely than opposition parties to adhere to "international responsibility" (Maatsch 2016;Rose 2014). There is thus an expectation that democratic governments, as representatives of their states in the international arena, will respect existing international agreements even if they are not entirely in favor of them.…”

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Effectiveness of the European Semester: Explaining Domestic Consent and Contestation

Maatsch

2017

Parliamentary Affairs

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MPIfG Discussion Papers are refereed scholarly papers of the kind that are publishable in a peer-reviewed disciplinary journal. Their objective is to contribute to the cumulative improvement of theoretical knowledge. The papers can be ordered from the institute for a small fee (hard copies) or downloaded free of charge (PDF). (2014 and 2015) in Austria, France, Germany, and Ireland. While in France and Germany, compliance within the European Semester has been subject to strong politicization, this has not been the case in Austria and Ireland. Moreover, strong politicization coincided with the contestation of country-specific recommendations among the parliamentary parties. The empirical analysis established that strong formal powers in budgetary matters constitute an important prerequisite allowing parliamentary parties to articulate their contestation. However, the willingness to comply depends most directly on whether the content of country-specific recommendations is coherent with the economic preferences of a political party, not the government-opposition cleavage. Keywords

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“…In contrast, only few publications have investigated the positions of parties or politicians on solidarity measures, which severely limits our understanding of elite preferences. Furthermore, these studies more or less all focus on political parties and rely on parties' media content (Bremer, 2018) or on parliamentary debates (Closa and Maatsch, 2014;Maatsch, 2014Maatsch, , 2016. Despite providing important findings, these studies do not allow straight-forward conclusions about preferences of politicians or the determinants of these preferences.…”

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“…So far, only a few publications have investigated politicians' positions on transnational solidarity in the years of the European Economic Crisis (Closa and Maatsch, 2014;Maatsch, 2014Maatsch, , 2016 or analyzed the decisions of national governments at that time (for instance Târlea et al, 2019). These studies, however, focus on parliamentary debates or votes instead of going deeper and studying the underlying attitudes of politicians and their individual willingness to support transnational solidarity within the EU.…”

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Transnational solidarity among political elites: what determines support for financial redistribution within the EU in times of crisis?

Reinl¹,

Giebler

2021

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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As a consequence of the European Economic Crisis, the European Union (EU) has implanted mechanisms to assist fellow member states facing economic difficulties. Despite an increasing academic interest in public preferences for such intra-EU solidarity measures, research has so far largely ignored individual characteristics that could possibly influence politicians’ views. In this paper, we look at politicians’ preferences for transnational solidarity and argue that these preferences depend on attitudes regarding socioeconomic issues as well as attitudes related to the EU. Moreover, we hypothesize that the relationship is moderated by responsibility attribution and the economic situation in a country. Using survey data of about 4000 politicians running for office in nine EU countries, we find that transnational solidarity is more common for socioeconomically left-wing and pro-EU politicians. Yet, attitudinal differences only cease to matter when the beneficiary state is perceived responsible for the crisis and economic problems at home are low.

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Drivers of political parties’ voting behaviour in European economic governance: the ultimate decline of the economic cleavage?

Cited by 10 publications

References 18 publications

Transnational Representation in EU National Parliaments: Concept, Case Study, Research Agenda

Transnational Representation in EU National Parliaments: Concept, Case Study, Research Agenda

Effectiveness of the European Semester: Explaining Domestic Consent and Contestation

Transnational solidarity among political elites: what determines support for financial redistribution within the EU in times of crisis?

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