Title:Party and Leader Effects in Parliamentary Elections: Towards a reassessment
Author(s):GARZIA, DiegoDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Social-psychological models of voting behaviour systematically downsize the relevance of party leader evaluations by conceiving them as mere consequences of causally prior partisan attachments. However, the validity of ...
Title:Party Contestation and Europe on the News Agenda: The 2009 European Parliamentary elections
Author(s):SCHUCK, Andreas R.T.; XEZONAKIS, Georgios; ELENBAAS, Matthijs; BANDUCCI, Susan A.; DE VREESE, Claes H.Date:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:In this article we analyse the news coverage of the 2009 EP elections in all 27 EU member states (N = 52,009). We propose that the extent to which these second-order elections are salient to the media depends on political ...
Title:Party Identification, Leader Effects and Vote Choice in Italy, 1990-2008
Author(s):GARZIA, Diego; VIOTTI, FedericoDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Previous studies have portrayed the personalization of politics as a consequence of the changes in the electoral market and the resulting transformations at the party level. However, empirical research has not reached a ...
Title:Party Patronage in Contemporary Europe: Principles and practices
Author(s):KOPECKÝ, Petr; MAIR, PeterDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper is based on the concluding chapter of a forthcoming volume reporting the results of a
research project that has investigated the principles and practices of party patronage in contemporary
European democracies ...
Title:Party Policy and Group Affiliation in the European Parliament
Author(s):MCELROY, Gail; BENOIT, KennethDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Systematic empirical research has yet to explain how national parties join political groups in the European Parliament. This article first demonstrates, using original empirical measures from expert surveys of party ...
Title:Party System Dynamics in Post-war Japan: A quantitative content analysis of electoral pledges
Author(s):PROKSCH, Sven-Oliver; SLAPIN, Jonathan B.; THIES, Michael F.Date:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:Qualitative accounts of Japanese party politics allude to the standard left–right spectrum, but they invariably devote much more space to discussions of foreign policy differences than to socioeconomic conflict. Quantitative ...
Title:The Past and Future of EU Law: The Classics of EU Law Revisited on the 50th Anniversary of the Rome Treaty
Author(s):POIARES PESSOA MADURO, Luis Miguel; AZOULAI, LoicDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book revisits, in a new light, some of the classic cases which constitute the foundations of the EU legal order and is timed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Rome Treaty establishing a European Economic ...
Title:Patterns of Circular Migration in the Euro-Mediterranean Area: Implications for Policy-Making
Author(s):CASSARINO, Jean-PierreDate:2008Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:[Migration Policy Centre]Abstract:This study lays emphasis on the existence of various patterns of circular migration in South Mediterranean countries, which are shaped by changing circumstances and structural factors fostering and sometimes disrupting ...
Title:The Perception of the EU as an Emerging Security Actor in Media Debates on Humanitarian and Military Interventions (1990-2006)
Author(s):KANTNER, Cathleen; KUTTER, Amelie; RENFORDT, SwantjeDate:2008-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:RECON Online Working PaperAbstract:Next to states and established international organisations, the European Union is emerging as an actor in the realm of international conflict management. Has the media in the EU Member States reflected this change? Our ...
Title:Performance Informed Budgeting in Europe: The Ends Justify the Means, Don't They?
Author(s):VAN NISPEN, Frans; POSSETH, JohanDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The last few decades a revival of the performance budgeting generating a complete performance industry. Initiated by the Anglo-Saxon countries, notably New Zealand, the performance movement is widespread today. In this ...
Title:Personalization and the Future of News
Author(s):HINDMAN, MatthewDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Over the past two decades, much scholarship has theorized about how highly personalized news media might change the public sphere. But even as algorithmic content filtering has become widespread, social science research ...