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  • Ever since the first popular election of the European Parliament (EP) in 1979, voters are presented with two channels to legitimize decision making within the European Union. In national elections voters authorize and hold accountable their national representatives, who represent their interests in the European Council. Through the elections to the EP voters elect and hold accountable their European representatives; this channel is gaining importance as the role of the EP in European decision-making increases. Conventional wisdom has it that national concerns dominate elections to the EP, which constitute “second order elections” that mirror the popularity and performance of national governments (Reif & Schmitt, 1980; Van der Brug & Van der Eijk, forthcoming). This fact (among other things) has often caused scholars to view EU politics as plagued by a democratic deficit (recently see Hix & Follesdal, 2006). In this paper we present a different view. Following Mair (2005), we argue that it is most rational for voters to voice their opinion about the course of European integration in national elections. We utilize data from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) and the European Election Survey (EES) between 1994 and 2004 to show that EU issue voting (i.e. the impact of voters’ EU preferences on vote choice) is more extensive in national elections than in EP elections. Hence, this study has important implications for our understanding of how issues regarding European integration affect electoral politics, as well as for the ongoing debate regarding the democratic deficit in EU politics (xsd:string)
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  • The Dual Nature of EU Issue Voting: The Impact of European Integration in National and European Parliamentary Elections (xsd:string)
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