The Effect that Structural and Investment Funds have on Voter Behaviour in European Parliamentary Elections

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Henceroth, Nathan
Oganesyan, Rafael
Date Issued
March 1, 2019
Abstract
Structural and Investment Funds (SIFs) have become the European Union's most robust redistribution programme. In this article, we demonstrate that SIFs have grown large enough in scope that they are now beginning to function similarly to more established macroeconomic determinants of the vote such as unemployment and GDP growth in European Parliamentary elections. Moreover, SIFs have an electoral effect in a type of election that was previously assumed to be merely a referendum on national government performance: second‐order, EP elections. SIFs serve as an example of how robust public spending can have an electoral effect even in a second‐order election environment.
Journal
Journal of Common Market Studies
Department
Political Science
Citation
Henceroth, N., & Oganesyan, R. (2019). The effect that structural and investment funds have on voter behaviour in european parliamentary elections Wiley Online Library. doi:10.1111/jcms.12837
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Wiley
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Published article
DOI
10.1111/jcms.12837
ISSN
0021-9886
1468-5965
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Copyright © 1999-2019 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved
Subjects

economic voting

EP elections

Structural and Invest...

second-order election...

EU social spending

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