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  • European elections provide unique opportunities for studying the complex interactions between elites and citizens in the interrelated spheres of domestic and European politics, partially because these elections link domestic and European politics. While their nature as second-order national elections makes European elections an integral part of the domestic political sphere, the temptation to interpret them as popular verdicts on the state and course of European integration has repeatedly proved irresistible. Irrespective of the veracity of such an interpretation-extremely limited until now, see the findings from chapters 8 and 9-it affects the way in which politicians and political parties position themselves with respect to European integration. Some of these-governing parties and politicians-directly affect policy making in the European political arena by virtue of their membership of the Council. This is particularly important because, as we will argue in detail in this chapter, we expect that the consequences of European integration will become politically more important and more contested in the years to come. Such changes will first and foremost take place in the domestic political arenas of the member states and thus impact European elections as well as first-order elections, i.e., the elections for the national parliaments of the member states. For these reasons, the results of the analyses presented in the previous chapters of this book not only document what went on during the European elections of 1999 but, possibly more importantly, they also serve as a stepping stone for making informed inferences about the way in which these complex interactions may evolve in the future. This is the agenda of the present chapter. We will first elaborate the linkage between European elections and domestic politics, focusing on the most important actors involved: common citizens, political elites, and media. Subsequently, we discuss why European integration can be expected to increase in electoral importance in the decade to come. Finally, we use the results from our analyses in previous chapters and the data of the European Election Study 1999 to estimate the electoral consequences of a number of scenarios each of which reflects a plausible change in the salience and politicization of 'Europe'. (xsd:string)
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  • In European Elections and Domestic Politics. Lessons from the Past and Scenarios for the Future, edited by Brug, Wouter van der and Eijk, Cees van der, 226-261, University of Notre Dame Press, 2007 (xsd:string)
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