Wratil, Christopher ORCID: 0000-0002-7339-9628 (2018). Modes of government responsiveness in the European Union: Evidence from Council negotiation positions. Eur. Union Polit., 19 (1). S. 52 - 75. LONDON: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. ISSN 1741-2757
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Are national governments responsive to citizens' opinions when negotiating policies in the Council of the European Union? Conceiving of the Council's policy-making space as encompassing left-right and pro-anti integration issues, I argue that governments apply different modes of responsiveness' on these issues. As left-right issues are more reliably and intensely salient in domestic elections than pro-anti integration issues, governments' responsiveness to left-right public opinion should be more systematic than to pro-anti integration opinion. Statistical analyses of 3700 policy positions of governments in the Council demonstrate that governments highly structure their responsiveness on left-right issues according to electoral cycles and systems (systematic mode'). However, they only sporadically respond to public opinion on pro-anti integration issues, when parties and events trigger the public salience of integration (sporadic mode').
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-195304 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/1465116517735599 | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Eur. Union Polit. | ||||||||
Volume: | 19 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | S. 52 - 75 | ||||||||
Date: | 2018 | ||||||||
Publisher: | SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD | ||||||||
Place of Publication: | LONDON | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1741-2757 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||
Divisions: | Unspecified | ||||||||
Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/19530 |
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