Voting at National versus European Elections: An Individual Level Test of the Second Order Paradigm for the 2014 European Parliament Elections

Hajo G. Boomgaarden, David Johann and Sylvia Kritzinger
Additional contact information
Hajo G. Boomgaarden: Department of Methods in the Social Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria
David Johann: Department of Methods in the Social Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria
Sylvia Kritzinger: Department of Methods in the Social Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria

Politics and Governance, 2016, vol. 4, issue 1, 130-144

Abstract: The second-order paradigm is the dominant framework for research on electoral behavior in European Parliament (EP) elections. In this study, we assess to what degree voting patterns in the 2014 EP election were characterized by second-orderness. While most studies of second-order voting behavior rely on macro-level accounts or suffer from potentially conflated vote measures, this study relies on panel data from the 2013 national and the 2014 EP election in Austria. We study change patterns in electoral behavior and, more importantly, assess the motives behind differences in vote choices between first- and second-order elections. Overall, the findings point towards a persisting relevance of the second-order framework for explaining voting in the 2014 EP election.

Keywords: EU attitudes; EP election; panel study; second-order election (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/472 (text/html)

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:cog:poango:v4:y:2016:i:1:p:130-144

DOI: 10.17645/pag.v4i1.472

Access Statistics for this article

Politics and Governance is currently edited by Carolina Correia

More articles in Politics and Governance from Cogitatio Press
Bibliographic data for series maintained by António Vieira () and IT Department ().