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JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN PUBLIC POLICY
Volume 30, Issue 12, Pages 2764-2785Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2022.2116082
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Electoral behaviour; European Parliament; Green parties; issue voting
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The 2019 European Parliament elections saw significant gains for Green parties across EU member states. The relevance of "green issue voting" depended on the national electoral context, with smaller Green parties owning the environmental issue. The study combined survey data and party positions to analyze the conditional dependence of "green issue voting" in the elections.
The 2019 European Parliament (EP) elections produced remarkable gains for Green parties throughout the European Union (EU). We analyse in how far different national electoral contexts can explain the electoral success of Green parties in EU member states. On the theoretical side, we argue that an increased salience of EU environmental politics has led to 'green issue voting'. However, the relevance of environmental issue preferences depends on the electoral context in which Green parties compete for votes. Specifically, we expect 'green issue voting' to be most relevant for the smaller Green parties who own the environmental issue. On the empirical side, we test our argument by combining survey data collected by the European Election Study with information on party positions provided by the Comparative Manifestos Project. Our findings strongly suggest that the relevance of 'green issue voting' in the 2019 EP elections was conditionally dependent on the national electoral context.
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