Party position, electoral incentives, and attention to European Union issues in the 2019 European Parliament election
Font, Nuria (Institut Universitari d'Estudis Europeus)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut d'Estudis Europeus

Imprint:	Sage Publications, 2023
Description:	11 pàg.
Abstract:	Under what conditions do Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) give attention to EU issues in European Parliament (EP) election campaigns? This study examines how party positioning on European integration and individual electoral incentives affected MEPs' attention to EU issues in the 2019 EP election campaign. Based on data collected from Twitter, the findings show that pro-EU parties and individual vote-seeking incentives increased attention to EU issues. More specifically, they show that MEPs from pro-EU mainstream parties had incentives to debate about EU issues, especially when they competed for votes. The findings help to unfold the interplay between party-level and legislator-level factors and its effects on attention to EU issues and aim to contribute to research on EU issue salience and EP election campaigns.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Subject:	European parliament ; Elections ; Salience ; Members of the European parliament ; Political parties
Published in:	Party Politics, ISSN 1460-3683
Related work:	Font Borras, Nuria, 2024, "Replication Data for: Party position, electoral incentives, and attention to European Union issues in the 2019 European Parliament election", CORA.Repositori de Dades de Recerca https://doi.org/10.34810/data1883

DOI: 10.1177/13540688231224059

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