Liberty - security dilemmas and party cohesion in the European Parliament
(2018) Journal of Common Market Studies — (2018)
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- The European Parliament is increasingly a central actor in attempts to regulate surveillance and find the balance between safeguarding personal freedoms and ensuring EU citizens' security. However, virtually nothing is known about what drives the positions of MEPs on this issue, or about how European parties' cohesion is affected by this controversial topic. We explore this subject and propose a novel theoretical framework focused on the interplay between the characteristics of the two principals of the MEPs - European party groups and national parties. We test the model by analyzing the votes held on the two most salient directives adopted in this field. The findings indicate that national parties' ideological positions, and the differences between them and the European parties in the salience assigned to human rights and law and order, predict to a great extent both MEP votes on the directives and dissent from the European party line.
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Mihail Chiru, & Valentin Stoian. (2018). Liberty - security dilemmas and party cohesion in the European Parliament. Journal of Common Market Studies. Accepted/in-press. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/60810 (Original work published 2018)