Political parties and the EU in national election campaigns: who talks about Europe, and how?

Senninger, Roman; Wagner, Markus

doi:10.1111/jcms.12278

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“…While in Spoon's (2012: 561) analysis, the average salience of European issues in Euromanifestos ranges between 19 and 25%, our findings show that European issues are much more relevant, with salience at around 75%. This confirms our expectation that EU policies make up a larger share of all European issues in Euromanifestos than in direct -and even more so than in mass-mediated -party communications in national elections (see Guinaudeau and Persico, 2013;Hutter et al, 2016b;Senninger and Wagner, 2015). Second, there is some increase in the numbers of policy issues mentioned in the manifestos, whereas the salience of constitutive issues has instead decreased over time.…”

Section: Mapping European Issues In Euromanifestossupporting

confidence: 81%

“…Two other recent studies have also taken up the 'policy' vs 'polity' distinction. For the case of Austria, Senninger and Wagner (2015) show that parties addressed European issues in about 9% of their press releases during national election campaigns in 2008 and 2013. Most importantly, all parties addressed EU policies to a fairly large extent (the two mainstream parties in government talked about such issues in more than 50% of their press releases).…”

Section: The Salience Of Europe: Emphasizing What and Why?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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What type of Europe? The salience of polity and policy issues in European Parliament elections

Braun

Hutter

Kerscher

2016

European Union Politics

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How much and why do political parties emphasize Europe in election campaigns? The literature is increasingly focusing on two aspects of party issue competition: position and salience. However, recent studies on salience tend to ignore the fact that Europe is a compound political issue. This article contributes to the debate by highlighting the crucial difference between constitutive and policy-related European issues. Using data from the Euromanifestos Project for 14 EU member states for the period 1979-2009, we first show that Europe is much more salient in European Parliament elections than previously assumed. Second, EU issue salience depends on party position and party system polarization over European integration. However, different explanations come into play once we bring in the polity-vs.-policy distinction. This has important implications for our understanding of party competition on European integration.

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Section: Mapping European Issues In Euromanifestossupporting

confidence: 81%

Section: The Salience Of Europe: Emphasizing What and Why?mentioning

confidence: 99%

What type of Europe? The salience of polity and policy issues in European Parliament elections

Braun

Hutter

Kerscher

2016

European Union Politics

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“…Recent research shows that parties do not necessarily pay attention to the same aspects when they talk about the EU. Parties tend to choose the EU issues they wish to address selectively so that they fit their general strategies and ideological outlook (Helbling et al, 2010;Hutter and Grande, 2014;Senninger and Wagner, 2015). In addition, parties tend to frame EU issues selectively as either an economic or cultural matter (Kriesi, 2007;McLaren, 2006).…”

Section: Selective Issue Emphasis In Eu Scrutiny Activitiesmentioning

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Issue expansion and selective scrutiny – how opposition parties used parliamentary questions about the European Union in the national arena from 1973 to 2013

Senninger

2016

European Union Politics

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The scrutiny exerted by opposition parties in European Union (EU) affairs crucially contributes to the functioning of democratic accountability in the EU. While our knowledge about the extent of control activities has increased, we know little about their content. This article investigates the policy issues that opposition parties address in parliamentary questions about the EU. I argue that Eurosceptic opposition parties follow vote-maximizing strategies and selectively scrutinize very general aspects of the EU. My expectation is tested using a unique data collection of written questions in the Danish Folketing . I find evidence that the content of questions has been broadened over time and that Eurosceptic parties strongly emphasize general EU matters. The results point to the importance of political parties in making democratic accountability in the EU work.

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“…In other words, mainstream and particularly incumbent parties face electoral incentives to justify and defend their past and future actions in Brussels (cf. Braun, Hutter, & Kerscher, 2015;Rauh, 2015;Senninger & Wagner, 2015).…”

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Has Eurosceptic Mobilization Become More Contagious? Comparing the 2009 and 2014 EP Election Campaigns in The Netherlands and France

Meijers

Rauh

2016

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With the lingering Euro crisis, personalized competition for the Commission presidency, and a surge of Eurosceptic parties, the 2014 European Parliament elections took place against an unknown level of European Union politicization. How does this changing context affect the supply side of party competition on European issues in EP election campaigns? This article compares the 2014 and 2009 EP elections in two EU founding members with high electoral support for radical left and radical right Euroscepticism-France and the Netherlands. We study publically visible patterns of partisan mobilization in the written news media with semi-automated content analyses. The data indicate that visible party mobilization on EU issues was on average not significantly higher in 2014. While particularly mainstream and especially incumbent parties publically mobilize on European issues during both campaigns, the radical right's mobilization efforts have become more visible during the 2014 elections. Examining the temporal dynamics within electoral campaigns, we show that the Eurosceptic fringes exhibit significant contagion effects on the mainstream parties, but that the extent of this contagion was surprisingly lower in the 2014 campaign. As a result, the increasing EU politicization between the 2009 and 2014 electoral contests has not resulted in an enhanced and more interactive supply of partisan debate about Europe.

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Political parties and the EU in national election campaigns: who talks about Europe, and how?

Cited by 21 publications

References 51 publications

What type of Europe? The salience of polity and policy issues in European Parliament elections

What type of Europe? The salience of polity and policy issues in European Parliament elections

Issue expansion and selective scrutiny – how opposition parties used parliamentary questions about the European Union in the national arena from 1973 to 2013

Has Eurosceptic Mobilization Become More Contagious? Comparing the 2009 and 2014 EP Election Campaigns in The Netherlands and France

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