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Last June’s European Parliament (“EP”) election was widely considered a failure. Turnout was low across Europe, and, as … has been the case in every EP election since they were introduced in 1979, voters responded exclusively to domestic cues … elections are much like the problems in a variety of American state and local elections. Election laws ensure that national …
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parliamentary term to assess how European Parliament (EP) election proximity affects party group cohesion. Our formal model of …
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Bei der Wahl zum Europäischen Parlament am 25. Mai 2014 treten die Parteien zum ersten Mal mit Spitzenkandidaten an, die - vorausgesetzt ihre Parteien erhalten eine Mehrheit vom Europäischen Rat - als Kommissionspräsidenten vorgeschlagen werden sollen. Diese Neuerung, die auf den...
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comprehensive, multi-country examination of the effects of terror attacks on political opinions and election outcomes. The results …
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This paper studies the existence of election cycles in public procurement in the European Union for the national level …
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Empirical research on the determinants of right and left-wing extremist election successes is still dominated by …
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banks earnings reports and of the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis on major newspapers from several European countries. We … find that newspapers cover announcements by their lenders - relative to those of other banks - significantly more when they … operates on the extensive margin for general-interest newspapers and on the intensive margin for financial newspapers …
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with very similar individual characteristics vote differently in different places? We use data from the British Election …
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In European Parliament elections turnout rates, traditionally lower than in national parliamentary elections, decrease from one elections to the next, and show strong variations within and between countries. What explains this decline? Why are there such big differences between and within the EU...
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This article develops an empirical measure of electoral availability, i.e., the micro perspective of political competition. As existing research conceptualizes political competition mainly as a macro- or party-level phenomenon, the micro perspective remains underdeveloped and, therefore, an...
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