Cross-cutting issues and electoral choice: EU issue voting in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum
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- dc.contributor.author Sara B. Hobolt
- dc.contributor.author Rodon i Casarramona, Antoni
- dc.date.accessioned 2024-04-10T07:06:26Z
- dc.date.available 2024-04-10T07:06:26Z
- dc.date.issued 2020
- dc.description Includes supplementary materials for the online appendix.
- dc.description.abstract As political competition is becoming increasingly multi-dimensional in Europe, voters often face the challenge of choosing which issues matter most to them. The European integration issue presents a particular difficulty for voters, since it is not closely aligned to the left-right dimension. We test the impact of the EU issue in the first parliamentary election following the UK's divisive Brexit referendum. We argue that while the EU issue was salient to voters, EU issue voting was inhibited by the indistinct and ambiguous positions adopted by the two major parties. To examine this, we combine an analysis of British Election Study data from the 2017 General Election with a conjoint experiment that allows us to present voters with a range of choices on both dimensions. Our findings show that the EU dimension has the potential to become a cross-cutting dimension that rivals the left-right dimension in British electoral politics, but this crucially depends on party competition.
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- dc.identifier.citation Hobolt SB, Rodon T. Cross-cutting issues and electoral choice: EU issue voting in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum. J Eur Public Policy. 2020;27(2):227-45. DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2019.1701535
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2019.170153
- dc.identifier.issn 1350-1763
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59721
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Taylor & Francis
- dc.relation.ispartof Journal of European public policy. 2020;27(2):227-45
- dc.relation.isreferencedby http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11776389.v1
- dc.rights © This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of European public policy on 30 Jan 2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13501763.2019.1701535
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- dc.subject.keyword EU issue voting
- dc.subject.keyword Elections
- dc.subject.keyword Conjoint
- dc.subject.keyword Brexit
- dc.subject.keyword Referendum
- dc.title Cross-cutting issues and electoral choice: EU issue voting in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum
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