Explaining Policy Position Choice of Europarties: The Effect of Legislative Resources

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• dc.contributor.author Klüver, Heike
• dc.contributor.author Rodon i Casarramona, Antoni
• dc.date.accessioned 2025-01-23T19:31:34Z
• dc.date.available 2025-01-23T19:31:34Z
• dc.date.issued 2012-06
• dc.description.abstract While Europarties have received increasing attention in recent years, little is known about how they arrive at common policy positions, given their strong internal ideological heterogeneity. In order to explain position formation within Europarties, this article argues that national parties compete with each other in an attempt to upload their own policy positions to their Europarty. The article hypothesizes that their ability to succeed in these attempts depends on their legislative resources. The argument is tested by analysing position formation within the four major Europarties for all European Parliament elections between 1979 and 2004. The empirical results confirm that position choice is skewed towards parties with a large seat share, which has important implications for political representation in Europe.
• dc.identifier.citation Klüver H, Rodón T. Explaining Policy Position Choice of Europarties: The Effect of Legislative Resources. Br J Polit Sci. 2013;43(3):629-50. DOI: 10.1017/S0007123412000543
• dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123412000543
• dc.identifier.issn 0007-1234
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/69260
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Cambridge University Press
• dc.relation.ispartof British Journal of Political Science. 2013;43(3):629-50.
• dc.rights This article has been published in a revised form in British Journal of Political Science https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123412000543. This version is published under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND licence. No commercial re-distribution or re-use allowed. Derivative works cannot be distributed. © Cambridge University Press 2012
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• dc.subject.other Europa -- Política i govern
• dc.title Explaining Policy Position Choice of Europarties: The Effect of Legislative Resources
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