Euroscepticism and government accountability in the European Union

Christina J. Schneider ()
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Christina J. Schneider: University of California

The Review of International Organizations, 2019, vol. 14, issue 2, No 3, 217-238

Abstract: Abstract The European Union has become a contested issue amongst voters in Europe. I analyze how the increasingly salient attitudes toward European integration have affected how voters hold their governments accountable for their policy decisions at the EU-level. I argue that attitudes toward the EU have become an important source of electoral accountability that complement attitudes on the left-right dimension, but they matter differently for pro- and anti-European voters. Whereas Eurosceptic voters are likely to use their attitudes toward the EU to hold their governments accountable, pro-European voters tend to rely on their specific attitudes toward particular policies to assess the responsiveness of their politicians. The paper presents the results of a conjoint experiment in a survey of 2,540 German citizens to analyze how pro- and anti-European voters’ attitudes influence their assessment of typical signals of government responsiveness.

Keywords: European Union; Electoral accountability; Responsiveness; Germany; Conjoint experiment; Immigration; Bailout (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/s11558-019-09358-w

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