The partisan electoral effect of EU structural and investment funds in French European Parliament elections
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Henceroth, Nathan
Oganesyan, Rafael
Date Issued
March 8, 2018
Abstract
In this article, we find a partisan electoral effect in French European Parliamentary (EP) elections that we consider to be a variant of an economic voting determinant. EU Structural and Investment Funds (SIFs) can be partially predictive of French EP electoral results. The direction of this electoral effect, however, is determined by partisanship. Left-leaning parties’ vote shares are positively correlated with SIF disbursement levels, while right-leaning parties’ vote shares are negatively correlated with SIF disbursement levels. This electoral phenomenon gives further credence to other findings that have demonstrated that variants of economic voting are occurring at subnational levels in second-order elections.
Journal
French Politics
Department
Political Science
Citation
Henceroth, N. and Oganesyan R. (2018, March 8). The partisan electoral effect of EU structural and investment funds in French European Parliament elections. French Politics, 16(2): 179-194. doi: 10.1057/s41253-018-0060-2
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Macmillan Publishers Inc
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Published article
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The post-print version of the article can be made available to the public after 03/08/2019.
ISSN
1476-3419
1476-3427
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This article was selected and published by Macmillan Publishers Ltd in French Politics 2018, available online: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41253-018-0060-2.
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