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The European Parliament elections of June 2004: still second-order?

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Summary:A quarter of a century ago the first series of European Parliament elections have been characterised as second-order national elections. A lot has changed since which might have had an impact upon this diagnosis. In this article I restate the central assumptions and predictions of the second-order elections model, and evaluate them against the outcome of the 2004 European Parliament election and a post-election survey. Surprisingly enough, the findings confirm the persisting second-order nature of EP elections for Western Europe. Things look very different, however, in the eight new Central and East European member countries.
Main Authors:Schmitt, Hermann
Subject:eleições para o Parlamento Europeu eleições de segunda ordem 2004 European Parliament elections second-order elections 2004 .
Year:2005
Country:Portugal
Document type:article
Access type:unknown
Associated institution:Universidade de Lisboa
Language:Portuguese
Origin:Análise Social

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