This time I’m (not) voting: how campaign factors affect European citizens’ turnout in EP elections

Marquart, Franziska, Goldberg, Andreas C. and De Vreese, Claes H. (2020) This time I’m (not) voting: how campaign factors affect European citizens’ turnout in EP elections. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog (06 Aug 2020). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Turnout in European Parliament elections declined in every vote held between 1979 and 2014. Ahead of the 2019 elections, the EU launched an initiative, ‘This time I’m voting’, in the hope of raising public interest. While turnout did increase in the 2019 contest, it remains an open question as to whether such campaign efforts help mobilise citizens. Drawing on a new study, Franziska Marquart, Andreas C. Goldberg and Claes H. de Vreese assess the role of individuals’ passive exposure to and active engagement with the 2019 campaign, finding that not all campaign efforts helped to increase turnout, with some even serving to demobilise the European electorate.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Authors
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) J Political Science > JZ International relations
Date Deposited:	25 Sep 2020 08:21
Last Modified:	17 Apr 2024 02:00
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/106363

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