Towards a new European polity? Social democrats and the 2014 ep elections

Laura Caroli, Nicola Genga, Alvaro Imbernon and Iulian Stanescu

Journal of Community Positive Practices, 2014, issue 2, 81-114

Abstract: The article highlights key issues and trends for the performance of PES and allies in the 2014 European Elections. Hence a historical background analysis is provided to observe the evolving balance of representation in the EU Parliament across three decades. Moreover, the paper aims at identifying the key member states for an improved result for the SD group in terms of seats. To this extent, major obstacles are found both in the declining electoral support for the Left at a national level and in the possible prevalence of a second order model boosting the hard euro sceptical populist protest against the current EU institutions. Particularly, the latter is the case in France, Italy and the United Kingdom. For this reason the Europeanisation of the EP election is taken as a crucial factor for the electoral campaigning, along with the nomination of the candidate for President of the European Commission as an aftermath of the Lisbon Treaty.

Keywords: European Elections; transnational parties; progressivism; populism; Europeanisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://jppc.ro/index.php/jppc/article/download/241/215 First version, 2014 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cta:jcppxx:2148

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Journal of Community Positive Practices from Catalactica NGO
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Ene Mihai ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).