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The European Parliament Elections of 2019 The European Parliament Elections of 2019 Edited by Lorenzo De Sio Mark Franklin Luana Russo luiss university press The European Parliament Elections of 2019 Edited by Lorenzo De Sio Mark Franklin Luana Russo © 2019 Luiss University Press – Pola Srl All rights reserved ISBN (print) 978-88-6105-411-0 ISBN (ebook) 978-88-6105-424-0 Luiss University Press – Pola s.r.l. viale Romania, 32 00197 Roma tel. 06 85225481/431 www.luissuniversitypress.it e-mail [email protected] Progetto grafico: HaunagDesign Impaginazione: Livia Pierini Questo libro è stato composto in ITC Charter e stampato su carta acid free presso Geca Industrie Grafiche, via Monferrato 54 20098 San Giuliano Milanese, Milano First published in July 2019 Table of contents Introduction Understanding the European Parliament elections of 2019 luana russo, mark franklin, lorenzo de sio .........................................p. 9 part i − comparative overview Chapter One Much ado about nothing? The EP elections in comparative perspective davide angelucci, luca carrieri, mark n. franklin ...............................p. 15 Chapter Two Party system change in EU countries: long-term instability and cleavage restructuring vincenzo emanuele, bruno marino ........................................................p. 29 Chapter Three Spitzenkandidaten 2.0: From experiment to routine in European elections? thomas christiansen, michael shackleton ...........................................p. 43 Chapter Four Explaining the outcome. Second-order factors still matter, but with an exceptional turnout increase lorenzo de sio, luana russo, mark franklin ........................................p. 57 Chapter Five Impact of issues on party performance nicola maggini, lorenzo de sio, diego garzia, alex h. trechsel...........p. 71 part ii − results across the 28 eu countries Austria: An election overshadowed by Ibiza-gate sylvia kritzinger, carolina plescia .......................................................p. 85 Belgium: Least salient, but very European louise hoon.............................................................................................p. 91 Bulgaria: neither a protest, nor a European vote nikoleta yordanova................................................................................p. 97 6 Croatia: Towards further fragmentation of the party system andrija henjak .......................................................................................p. 103 Cyprus: An election of ‘soft’ phenomena: apathy, incumbent punishment and far right consolidation giorgos charalambous...........................................................................p. 109 Czech Republic: No country for old parties vlastimil havlík......................................................................................p. 115 Denmark: The surprising success of pro-European mainstream parties julie hassing nielsen .............................................................................p. 121 Estonia: A scene set by the preceding national election piret ehin, liisa talving..........................................................................p. 127 Finland: European Elections in the aftermath of national elections henrik christensen, marco svensson la rosa........................................p. 133 France: Setting the stage for 2022 romain lachat ........................................................................................p. 141 Germany: Second order but still groundbreaking? heiko giebler ..........................................................................................p. 147 Greece: A story of government punishment and party-system stabilisation eftichia teperoglou ...............................................................................p. 155 Hungary: A paradoxical episode under electoral euthoritarianism gabor toka..............................................................................................p. 161 Ireland: Something for almost everyone michael marsh ........................................................................................p. 167 Italy: Complete overturn among government partners – League doubled, M5S halved aldo paparo, irene landini......................................................................p. 173 Latvia: European expertise matters jaˉnis ikstens ...........................................................................................p. 181 Lithuania: Defeat of Eurosceptic parties in the shadow of a presidential campaign mazvydas jastramskis ............................................................................p. 187 Luxembourg: The permanent downfall of Luxembourg’s dominant party? patrick dumont, raphaël kies, dan schmit ............................................p. 193 Malta: Unstoppable Labour? marcello carammia, roderick pace........................................................p. 199 table of contents 7 Netherlands: A Timmermans (Spitzenkandidaten) effect? arjan schakel ........................................................................................p. 205 Poland: A skirmish before the decisive battle mikolaj cze´nik,s michał kotnarowski ...................................................p. 219 Portugal: Defeat for the right, challenges for the left marco lisi ...............................................................................................p. 225 Romania: Between national politics and European hopes sorina soare, claudiu tufi¸s ...................................................................p. 231 Slovakia: Continuation of electoral earthquakes peter spácˇ................................................................................................p. 239 Slovenia: Split national political identities in EU electoral democracy simona kustec .........................................................................................p. 245 Spain: The endless election sequence enrique hernandez, marta fraile .........................................................p. 253 Sweden: We are all the winners maria oskarson.......................................................................................p. 261 United Kingdom: European Elections in the run-up to Brexit kaat smets...............................................................................................p. 267 Authors’ Biographies ................................................................................p. 273 Introduction Understanding the European Parliament elections of 2019 luana russo, mark n. franklin and lorenzo de sio Understanding an election to the European Parliament (EP) – any election to the EP – is not straightforward. The elections are treated as being akin to a parliamentary election, but whereas parliamentary elections in EU member states lead to the for- mation of a government pledged to carry out policies on which its member parties campaigned in the run-up to the election, an EP election leads to no government being formed, much less one pledged to certain policies supported by voters. Indeed it is not clear to most of those voters what is the purpose of these elections or what is the point of voting in them. The most common appeal by national parties is that their supporters should vote out of loyalty to those parties. Consequently those without established party loyalties (particulary younger citizens) are especially unlikely to vote and turnout seldom reaches even 50 percent. Some people also vote to register dissatisfaction with government policies or to support policies that they feel are being neglected. As a result, government parties (often larger parties) regularly lose vo- tes at these elections whereas parties espousing ideas with limited appeal (mostly small parties) do well. For reasons explained later in the book these phenomena ac- cord with what is known as Second Order Election (SOE) theory. In the first three decades of EP elections (1979 to 2009) these elections, despi- te their ostensive purpose to elect a European parliament, had very little focus on Eu- ropean matters. Instead they presented a distorted mirror of national political con- cerns. In 2014 for the first time, these elections were clearly "about Europe" but it has been argued that they were still just displaying a distorted reflection of national po- litical concerns which, in the aftermath of the Great Recession and the economic strin- gency that ensued in many EU countries, had also become "about Europe". In 2019 it was widely expected that the European content of the EP elections that year would be even greater than in 2014. That does not seem to have occurred to any notable extent; although there are signs of a possibly different process – not specifically re- lated to EU issues – leading to some Europeanization of this EP election. This is a book about those elections. In it a large group of scholars explore the nature of these elections both within each of the 28 countries that participated and also taking a comparative cross-national perspective. It tries to shed light on why the- se elections were important and in what ways they may even have been pathbrea- king, perhaps initiating a new era in which EP elections have palpable consequen- ces that may even bring more European citizens to the polls. Certainly, from a tur- nout perspective, the 2019 EP elections were quite remarkable: the first such elec- De Sio, L., Franklin, M. and Russo L. (eds), The European Parliament Elections of 2019, Luiss Uni- versity Press, Rome, 2019. ISBN (online) 978-88-6105-424-0 10 the european parliament elections
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