Goldberg Andreas C, van Elsas Erika J, De Vreese Claes H
Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Department of Political Science, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
J Contemp Eur Stud. 2024 May 23;32(4):1323-1342. doi: 10.1080/14782804.2024.2356643. eCollection 2024.
EU attitudes are multidimensional and likely to matter differentially for voting across different parties. The 2019 European Parliament (EP) elections offer a unique setting for testing the differential effects of multidimensional EU attitudes, as the election results entailed increased political fragmentation - with notable pro- and anti-EU party groups in the EP gaining strength. This article examines the importance of EU attitudes on electoral choice and zooms in on the influence of specific EU attitudes on party voting in EP elections ('EU issue voting'). We use original survey data collected around the 2019 EP elections in ten EU member states, which include a fine-grained measurement of EU attitudes. We find evidence for EU issue voting in all countries, albeit not equally structured across countries. EU issue voting matters across all party groups with affective and performance evaluations having the strongest effects.
欧盟态度具有多维度性，并且可能对不同政党的投票产生不同影响。2019年欧洲议会选举为检验多维度欧盟态度的不同影响提供了一个独特背景，因为选举结果导致了政治碎片化加剧——欧洲议会中明显的亲欧盟和反欧盟政党团体实力增强。本文探讨了欧盟态度对选举选择的重要性，并聚焦于特定欧盟态度对欧洲议会选举中政党投票的影响（“欧盟议题投票”）。我们使用了在2019年欧洲议会选举前后在十个欧盟成员国收集的原始调查数据，其中包括对欧盟态度的细致衡量。我们发现所有国家都存在欧盟议题投票的证据，尽管各国的结构并不相同。欧盟议题投票在所有政党团体中都很重要，情感和绩效评估的影响最为强烈。
