The continued relevance of the second-order elections (SOE) theory is one of the most
widely debated issues in the study of European Parliament (EP) elections. While the theory …

Drawing on electoral participation and social movement studies, we develop a typology of
abstainers on the basis of their forms of non-electoral participation, and explore the …

We argue that the attention parties devote to a topic contributes to expanding the opportunity
structure to acquire information that party supporters have. We evaluate this proposition in a …

ABSTRACT The 2019 European Parliament (EP) elections produced remarkable gains for
Green parties throughout the European Union (EU). We analyse in how far different national …

ABSTRACT EU issue voting in European Parliament elections has been shown to be highly
conditional upon levels of EU politicization. The present study analyzes this conditionality …

In order to explain differences in political interest, two strands of literature point to the
relevance of either dispositional or situational factors. I remedy this and show how political …

This article seeks to enhance our understanding of the European Parliament (EP) elections
in an era of populist and anti-European Union (EU) politics. Specifically, it aims to evaluate …

In the previous chapters, the politicisation of the EU at both the media and parliamentary
levels was established in the six EU countries which form part of the study, for both debtor …

European integration considerably changes public discourses in the member states of the
European Union. In the late 2010s, the member states of the European Union debate …

Previous chapters in this book have considered from a comparative perspective the extent to
which EU politicization is taking place in media and parliaments and, adopting an …