Government coalitions and Eurosceptic voting in the 2014 European Parliament elections
(2019) European Union Politics — Vol. 20, n° 3, p. 425-446 (2019)
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Zucchini, Francesco 
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- The 2014 European elections were characterized in many countries by growing support for Eurosceptic parties. This growth was not uniform and not clearly associated with the economic performance of these member states. In this article we investigate the role played in the 2014 European Parliament elections by a country-specific factor - the composition of government coalitions - different from economic performance. In particular, we argue that in those countries where moderately Eurosceptic parties were more involved in the government, citizens with negative attitudes toward the EU were more likely to vote for highly Eurosceptic parties. This was especially the case when the governments also included strongly pro-EU parties. The empirical analysis, based upon the 2014 European Election Voter Study (EES), the Chapel Hill Expert Survey, and the ParlGov database, confirms our hypotheses.
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Camatarri, S., & Zucchini, F. (2019). Government coalitions and Eurosceptic voting in the 2014 European Parliament elections. European Union Politics, 20(3), 425-446. https://doi.org/10.1177/1465116519851566 (Original work published 2019)