Emotions and voting in EU referendums
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6261981 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Garry (0000-0002-2089-3817, Queen's University Belfast, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 235-254 |
| Publication date | 2014-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Union Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-1165 • E-ISSN: 1741-2757 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1465116513514780 |
| OpenAlex | W2083881842 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 42 |
| References cited | 46 |
There is an emerging scholarship on the emotional bases of political opinion and behaviour and, in particular, the contrasting implications of two distinct negative emotions – anger and anxiety. I apply the insights in this literature to the previously unresearched realm of the emotional bases of voting in EU referendums. I hypothesise that anxious voters rely on substantive EU issues and angry voters rely on second-order factors relating to domestic politics (partisanship and satisfaction with government). Focusing on the case of Irish voting in the Fiscal Compact referendum, and using data from a representative sample of voters, I find support for the hypotheses and discuss the implications of the findings for our understanding of the emotional conditionality of EU referendum voting
Anger · Conditionality · Disapproval voting · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Referendum · Scholarship · Sociology · Voting · Voting behavior · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 42 |
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| Citations per year | 3,82 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 42 |