Contagious Euroscepticism. The Impact of Eurosceptic Challenger Parties on Mainstream Party Attitudes toward European Integration

  • This project argues that Eurosceptic challenger parties can affect mainstream parties’ attitudes toward European integration in Western Europe. Defined as anti-European parties without governing experience, Eurosceptic challengers have become a pervasive electoral phenomenon. On the backdrop of both spatial theory and issue saliency theory of party competition, this project argues that Eurosceptic challenger parties can influence mainstream parties’ positions on as well as emphasis of the European integration issue. After comparative overview of party-based Euroscepticism, a historical and descriptive quantitative analysis of mainstream EU positions and EU issue salience demonstrates that mainstream party attitudes vary significantly over time – an important precondition for Eurosceptic challengers’ programmatic influence.(...)

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Metadaten
Document Type:Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Author(s):Maurits J. Meijers
Advisor:Markus Jachtenfuchs, Ruud Koopmans, Wouter van der Brug
Hertie Collections (Serial Number):Dissertations submitted to the Hertie School (03/2016)
Publication year:2016
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
Granting Institution:Hertie School
Thesis date:2016/11/14
Number pages:261
DOI:https://doi.org/10.48462/opus4-2289
Release Date:2017/08/04
Notes:
Shelf mark: 2016D002 + 2016D002+1
Hertie School Research:Publications PhD Researchers
Licence of document (German):Metadaten (öffentlich), Volltext (zugriffsbeschränkt)
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