Assessing the 2019 European Parliament Elections
Informed by and against the backdrop of the 2019 European Parliament (EP) elections, this innovative book provides a critical assessment of where Europe stands in terms of the quest to achieve democratic legitimacy. Since the 2014 EP elections, the European Union (EU) has experienced multiple crises, which arguably have undermined its legitimacy. The 2019 EP elections were hence seen as a crucial moment in the EUs attempts to show resilience and regain trust.
Using political science and legal frames of analysis, Assessing the 2019European Parliament Elections provides an understanding and assessment of the current politico-legal framework, and its impact on European elections. Furthermore, using original data, it provides a timely examination of public opinion issue priorities and voting behaviour at the 2019 EP elections in eight countries. Given the critical conjuncture that the 2019 EP elections represent, this volume provides a key contribution to understanding both the dynamics surrounding the elections, as well as voters responses, and informs debates on European politics, for example, second-order elections, democratic legitimacy and political representation.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of EU politics, public administration, European studies, European law, and sociology, along with practitioners in politics, journalism, and policy analysis.
Sylvia Kritzinger is Professor of Social Science Research Methods in the Department of Government at the University of Vienna, Austria.
Carolina Plescia is Assistant Professor and Hertha Firnberg scholar in the Department of Government at the University of Vienna, Austria.
Kolja Raube is Assistant Professor for European Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences at KU Leuven, and Research Manager at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, Belgium.
James Wilhelm is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Vienna Center for Electoral Research at the University of Vienna, Austria.
Jan Wouters is Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam European Union and Global Governance, and Director of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies at KU Leuven, Belgium.
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Assessing the 2019 European Parliament Elections
Edited by Sylvia Kritzinger, Carolina Plescia, Kolja Raube, James Wilhelm and Jan Wouters
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Title: Assessing the 2019 European Parliament elections / edited by Sylvia Kritzinger, Carolina Plescia, Kolja Raube, James Wilhelm, Jan Wouters.
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Ben Crum is Professor of Political Science at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands and is a work package leader in the Horizon 2020 (H2020) RECONNECT project (Reconciling Europe with its Citizens through Democracy and Rule of Law). Crums research focuses on the way processes of internationalization European integration, in particular affect established practices and understandings of democracy and solidarity. He is the author of Learning from the EU Constitutional Treaty (Routledge, 2012) and co-editor (with John Erik Fossum) of Practices of Inter-Parliamentary Coordination in International Politics: The European Union and Beyond
