Bulletin n. 3/2011
February 2012
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Hornig Eike-Christian
    Risiko Volksabstimmung? Zur Kluft zwischen Parteien und Wählern bei EU-Referenden in Westeuropa im Vergleich
    in Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft , 21. Jahrgang (2011), Heft 2 ,  2011
    Never mind a public vote? Comparing the gap between party elites and voters in the context of EU- and Non-EU-Referenda in Western Europe The article analyses the relationship between political parties and direct democracy by testing the hypothesis of a gap between political elites and voters in the process of European Integration, as prevalent in the respective literature. Referring to the concept of the partyness of direct democracy the indicator for the gap is realized as the coherence of positions in the representative arena with referendum results measured as partyness. Accordingly, the partyness of 31 EU and 133 Non-EU-votes is calculated by drawing on an extensive original data set of party positions and standard vote and election results from various countries. This first large scale comparison of both referenda groups reveals the partyness of EU-votes to range about 7% of the electorate lower than the partyness of Non-EU-Votes. The integration of additional independent variables into the analysis further specifies the nature of this gap.
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