Competitive and Coherent? Profiling the Europarties in the 2009 European Parliament Elections
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12047609 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edoardo Bressanelli (0000-0002-9906-4949, a School of Government Luiss Guido Carli Via di Villa Emiliani , 14 00197, Rome , (Italy), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 653-668 |
| Publication date | 2012-08-17 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of European Integration (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0703-6337 • E-ISSN: 1477-2280 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07036337.2012.711824 |
| OpenAlex | W2071990193 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 24 |
On the bases of the new EU Profiler data for the 2009 European Parliament elections, this work looks at two basic criteria to assess the representative potential of the EU party system: its competitiveness and the policy coherence of its parties. It is here argued that, if the national parties are successfully able to aggregate their programmes and agendas at the EU level, proposing different options to the European voters, the EU ‘democratic deficit' might not be as severe as it is often lamented. It is found that the Europarties, despite the enlargements towards Central and Eastern Europe, are sufficiently coherent and different to seek to fulfil an expressive, or representative, function. By selectively placing its focus on the ‘supply-side' of politics, this work shows that European voters could indeed make meaningful choices, which the Europarties might turn into concrete policies through their parliamentary activity
Economics · Parliament · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Profiling (computer programming · Computer Science · European and International Law Studies · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Parties and Party Systems
Political Parties in the European Union
Reliability and Validity Assessment
Democratic Politics in the European Parliament
Left–Right Orientations
Political Parties in Western Democracies
European Integration and Political Conflict
Party in Democratic Theory
The EU Party System after Eastern Enlargement
When Parties (Also) Position Themselves
Democracy and Legitimacy in the European Union
Towards a Europe of the Parties
Political Representation and Legitimacy in the European Union
Political representation and government in the European Union
National parties and group membership in the European Parliament
The Role of European Integration in National Election Campaigns
Party Policy and Group Affiliation in the European Parliament
The Quantity and the Quality of Party Systems
Off the Record
Introduction
Political Parties
| Citations per year | 0.42 |
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| Citation span | 2014 - 2018 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |