Date: 2011
Type: Article
Second-Order Effects Plus Pan-European political Swings: an Analysis of European Parliament Elections Across Time
Electoral Studies, 2011, 30, 1, 4-15, Special Symposium on Electoral Democracy in the European Union[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]
HIX, Simon, MARSH, Michael, Second-Order Effects Plus Pan-European political Swings: an Analysis of European Parliament Elections Across Time, Electoral Studies, 2011, 30, 1, 4-15, Special Symposium on Electoral Democracy in the European Union[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory] - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/19975
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After seven waves of European Parliament elections and European Union enlargement to 27 states, the time is ripe to analyse the temporal robustness of the second-order model. We pool all the elections in a single evaluation and also look at election-by-election variations. We analyse changes in party performance over time in all EU states as well as in the ‘original 10’, to see whether any cross-time changes are driven by the changing composition of the EU. We also look for pan-European trends in each election, as a way identifying ‘European effects’ distinct from second-order effects. There are few consistent winners and losers, although socialist parties performed worse in the last three elections than their size and government status would predict.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: pan-European swings in European parliament elections?
2. Second-order effects: governing status and party size
3. Party family trends and individual election swings
4. Conclusion
Additional information:
Publication based on research carried out in the framework of the European Union Democracy Observatory (EUDO) of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute.; The journal issue has been produced in the framework of the PIREDEU Project, one of the projects carried out by the EUDO Public Opinion Observatory.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/19975
Full-text via DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2010.09.017
ISSN: 0261-3794
Series/Number: [EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]
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