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Title:Individual and Contextual Variation in EU issue Voting: the Role of Political Information Author(s):DE VRIES, Catherine E.; VAN DER BRUG, Wouter; VAN EGMOND, Marcel H.; VAN DER EIJK, CeesDate:2011Citation: Electoral Studies, 2011, 30, 1, 16-28, Special Symposium on Electoral Democracy in the European Union Type:ArticleSeries/Number:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:Increasing politicization in EU member states about European issues can be expected to strengthen the impact of attitudes towards Europe on vote choice in European Parliament (EP) elections. At the same time this impact ...

Title:Second-Order Effects Plus Pan-European political Swings: an Analysis of European Parliament Elections Across Time Author(s):HIX, Simon EUI affiliated

; MARSH, MichaelDate:2011Citation: Electoral Studies, 2011, 30, 1, 4-15, Special Symposium on Electoral Democracy in the European Union Type:ArticleSeries/Number:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract: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 ...

Title:Introduction: Electoral democracy in the European Union Author(s):HOBOLT, Sara Binzer; FRANKLIN, Mark N.Date:2011Citation: Electoral Studies, 2011, 30, 1, 1-3, Special Symposium on Electoral Democracy in the European Union Type:ArticleSeries/Number:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]

Title:The Dynamic Properties of Individual-level Party Identification in the United States Author(s):BARTELS, Brandon L.; BOX-STEFFENSMEIER, Janet M.; SMIDT, Corwin D.; SMITH, Renée M.Date:2011Citation: Electoral Studies, 2011, 30, 1, 210-222, Special Symposium on Electoral Democracy in the European Union Type:ArticleSeries/Number:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:Central to traditionalist and revisionist perspectives of individual-level party identification is a debate about the stability of party identification. We revisit the debate about the dynamic properties and processes ...

Title:When do You Follow the (National) Leader? Party switching by subnational legislators in Japan Author(s):MILAZZO, Caitlin; SCHEINER, EthanDate:2011Citation: Electoral Studies, 2011, 30, 1, 148-161, Special Symposium on Electoral Democracy in the European Union Type:ArticleSeries/Number:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:In 1993, after 38 years of single-party control, more than 20% of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) House of Representatives members left the party to form new alternatives and create an anti-LDP coalition ...

Title:The Chilean Elections of December 2009 and January 2010 Author(s):TORO, Sergio Y.; LUNA, Juan PabloDate:2011Citation: Electoral Studies, 2011, 30, 1, 226-230, Special Symposium on Electoral Democracy in the European Union Type:ArticleSeries/Number:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:On 13 December 2009, seven million Chileans went to the polls to elect the president who would run their country from 2010 to 2014, as well as lower chamber representatives of the country’s sixty electoral districts. The ...

Title:Measuring Party Positions and Issue Salience from Media Coverage: Discussing and cross-validating new indicators Author(s):HELBLING, Marc EUI affiliated

; TRESCH, AnkeDate:2011Citation: Electoral Studies, 2011, 30, 1 ,174-183, Special Symposium on Electoral Democracy in the European Union Type:ArticleSeries/Number:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:Recent studies have started to use media data to measure party positions and issue salience. The aim of this article is to compare and cross-validate this alternative approach with the more commonly used party manifestos, ...

Title:How do Candidates Spend Their Money? Objects of campaign spending and the effectiveness of diversification Author(s):SUDULICH, Maria Laura; WALL, MatthewDate:2011Citation: Electoral Studies, 2011, 30, 1, 91-101, Special Symposium on Electoral Democracy in the European Union Type:ArticleSeries/Number:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:We present a novel approach to the study of campaign effectiveness using disaggregated spending returns from the 2007 Irish general election. While previous studies have focused on overall levels of expenditure as a predictor ...

Title:Which Democracies Prosper? Electoral rules, form of government and economic growth Author(s):KNUTSEN, Carl HenrikDate:2011Citation: Electoral Studies, 2011, 30, 1, 83-90, Special Symposium on Electoral Democracy in the European Union Type:ArticleSeries/Number:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:Electoral rules and form of government have important economic effects, for example on taxation and public spending. However, there are no robust results in the literature when it comes to their effect on economic growth. ...

Title:Campaigning on an Upper Level? Individual campaigning in the 2009 European Parliament elections in its determinants Author(s):GIEBLER, Heiko; WÜST, Andreas M.Date:2011Citation: Electoral Studies, 2011, 30, 1, 53-66, Special Symposium on Electoral Democracy in the European Union Type:ArticleSeries/Number:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:Election campaigns are not only party campaigns, but depend to a significant degree on the efforts and activities of individual candidates. While some country-specific analyses of candidate campaigning have been done, ...

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