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dc.contributor.authorSCHULTE-CLOOS, Julia
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-10T16:09:02Z
dc.date.available2020-02-10T16:09:02Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationJournal of European public policy, 2019, Vol. 26, No. 7, (SI), pp. 1094-1111en
dc.identifier.issn1350-1763
dc.identifier.issn1466-4429
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/66110
dc.descriptionPublished online: 05 Jun 2019en
dc.description.abstractDo European Parliament (EP) elections have adverse effects on the political socialisation of individuals? Instilling a lasting political disaffection in impressionable voters, the supranational contest may have negative consequences for long-term political socialisation. Relying on a large cross-national dataset from 2004, I identify the causal effect of first-time eligibility and voting in the EP elections by exploiting the exogenous variation in adolescents' birth months. The results of a discontinuity design show that the elections do not politically disengage young voters or strengthen their party bonds to radical or Eurosceptic parties. Instead, the EP elections arouse their political interest in general and their European interest in particularen
dc.description.abstracta long-lasting effect that persists for more than five years. Placebo tests and various robustness tests confirm the results. Considering that individuals are most receptive towards political socialisation stimuli during early adulthood, this study sheds light on the integrative potential of the EP elections.en
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltden
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of European public policyen
dc.subjectEuropean integrationen
dc.subjectEuropean Parliament electionsen
dc.subjectpolitical interesten
dc.subjectpolitical socialisationen
dc.subjectquasi-experimenten
dc.subjectvoting behaviouren
dc.titleThe effect of European parliament elections on political socialisationen
dc.typeArticle
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13501763.2019.1620841
dc.identifier.volume26
dc.identifier.startpage1094
dc.identifier.endpage1111
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dc.identifier.issue7


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