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- Does European integration affect turnout? Several strands of literature suggest that European integration – understood as a process of negative integration – should depress turnout in national elections by diluting authority, while the second order model indicates that it should foster participation in European elections by transferring competences to the EU level. Yet, no study has ever examined empirically the effects of European integration on electoral participation and the underlying mechanisms underpinning them. Using the 2014 Comparative Electoral Dynamics, we examine how perceptions of EU authority affect turnout in both national and European elections. Results show that both processes do not affect turnout and norms of voting similarly. First, European integration, understood as a process of negative integration, alters norms of voting, but does not affect turnout. Second, European integration, understood as a process of transfers of authority, does not alter norms of participation, but depresses turnout. Interestingly, perceptions of transfers of responsibility have a negative effect on turnout in both national and European elections.
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Le Gall, C., & et al. (2018). European integration and turnout: communicating vessels or negative integration? EPAL, Lille. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/92698