Europarties’ election pledges and European Commission legislative priorities: An assessment of their overlap

Kostadinova, Petia; Giurcanu, Magda

doi:10.1177/1354068818820646

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“…We then illustrate how these processes started during the first Barroso Commission, and we engage with the broader literature on policy responsiveness to formulate our hypotheses. Giurcanu, 2019). Research also documented the extensive exchanges between post-Lisbon Commission Presidents and the mainstream Eurogroups that assured the Commission's investiture but led to a significant expansion of the Commission's policy priorities based on those of the Europarties (Nugent and Rhinard, 2019).…”

Section: A Public-to-policy Linkage In the Eu -A Responsive Relations...mentioning

confidence: 98%

“…To address the possibility that the Commission responds to the 'public' by coordinating its priorities with those of the EP, we develop an argument that draws from scholarship on policy responsiveness and administrative legitimacy. Research has already documented a linkage between European elections' pledges and the prelegislative initiatives of the European Commission (Kostadinova and Giurcanu, 2019).…”

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A responsive relationship? setting the political agenda in the European Union

Giurcanu

Kostadinova

2021

Journal of European Public Policy

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Recent research has documented the European Commission's attention to the preferences of the European public and the other EU institutions when formulating policy proposals. This project demonstrates that such efforts originated with the first Barroso Commission, which addressed public concerns through purposeful coordination with the European Parliament when drafting policy priorities in the Commission's administrative units.We test for public input during the inter-institutional coordination as early as 2004 -2008, using Europarties' pledges issued during the 2004 EP elections and subsequent Commission policy priorities. Our analyses show that the policy priorities of the Commission overlap with the Europarties' pledges when 1) the public is critical of European integration, 2) policies are salient to the public, and 3) priority initiatives fall in areas dominated by civil society and NGO groups. We interpret our results as a responsive relationship based on the inter-institutional coordination between the two actors at the agenda-setting stage.

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A responsive relationship? setting the political agenda in the European Union

Giurcanu

Kostadinova

2021

Journal of European Public Policy

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“…In the EP elections, the individual parties that campaign on a national level are part of transnational europarties. Pledges made by these europarties are not part of this paper (but see Kostadinova and Giurcanu, 2019).…”

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Beyond manifestos: Exploring how political campaigns use online advertisements to communicate policy information and pledges

Dobber,

Vreese

2022

Big Data & Society

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Social media platforms take on increasingly big roles in political advertising. Microtargeting techniques facilitate the display of tailored advertisements to specific subsegments of society. Scholars worry that such techniques might cause political information to be displayed to only very small subgroups of citizens. Or that targeted communication about policy could make the mandate of elected representatives more challenging to interpret. Policy information in general and pledges, in particular, have received much scientific scrutiny. Scholars have focused largely on party manifestos, but policy information and pledges communicated via online advertisements offer a new arena with new dynamics. This study uses Facebook’s ad library to describe how Dutch political campaigns advertise policy information and pledges in the run-up to the 2019 European Elections. The results show that much policy information is displayed to small subsegments of society. These findings provide evidence for concerns about pledge obfuscation, voter manipulation and mandate interpretation.

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“…By facilitating collective agreements and structuring the legislative process in the complex EU system, they perform meaningful tasks that no national party can (Clasen, 2020;Johansson, 2017;Peglis, 2015). Empirical studies have shown that Europarties impacted negotiation processes preceding EU Treaty reform decision-making (Johansson, 2017) and that some election pledges made by Europarties have been reflected in new legislative initiatives of the European Commission (Kostadinova & Giurcanu, 2020). In that light, Europarties indeed wield considerable political influence within the EU (Johansson & Raunio, 2019).…”

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Missed opportunity to connect with European citizens? Europarties’ communication on Facebook during the 2019 European election campaign

Wurst

Fenoll

Haßler

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The digitization of political communication and major transformations in the European Union (EU) have altered the conditions for European election campaigns. Whereas national political parties remain highly visible political actors in the EU, Europarties attract relatively little attention from the media and citizens. Social media could provide Europarties with an opportunity to raise awareness among European citizens. In our study, we investigated the social media campaign strategies of Europarties by conducting a manual quantitative content analysis comparing their Facebook posts with the posts of national parties from 12 European countries, focusing on the communication elements used to inform and mobilize citizens, especially in relation to the lead candidates. Our results revealed that some Europarties employed the concept of European lead candidates by emphasizing their candidates in their Facebook posts. However, in their relative inactivity on Facebook compared with national parties, Europarties did not seem to counteract the oft-cited lack of a European public sphere.

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Europarties’ election pledges and European Commission legislative priorities: An assessment of their overlap

Cited by 7 publications

References 40 publications

A responsive relationship? setting the political agenda in the European Union

A responsive relationship? setting the political agenda in the European Union

Beyond manifestos: Exploring how political campaigns use online advertisements to communicate policy information and pledges

Missed opportunity to connect with European citizens? Europarties’ communication on Facebook during the 2019 European election campaign

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