Contesting the European Union? Why the dutch and the french rejected the European Constitution - HAL Access content directly
Journal articles Political Research Quarterly Year : 2011

Contesting the European Union? Why the dutch and the french rejected the European Constitution

Abstract

The process of establishing a constitution for Europe came to an end when voters in France and the Netherlands rejected the proposal. Analyzing both media coverage and survey data, this article seeks to disentangle the reasons why a majority of voters rejected the European Constitution. The authors' findings suggest that the campaign played an important role in priming certain attitudes and that vote choices, in turn, were driven by specific issue concerns rather than general dissatisfaction with the European Union or national governments. These findings have implications not only for our understanding of direct democracy in Europe but also for the study of campaign effects.
Loading...
No file

Dates and versions

halshs-00606342, version 1 (06-07-2011)

Identifiers

Cite

Sara Binzer Hobolt, Sylvain Brouard. Contesting the European Union? Why the dutch and the french rejected the European Constitution. Political Research Quarterly, 2011, 64 (2), pp.309-322. ⟨10.1177/1065912909355713⟩. ⟨halshs-00606342⟩
55 View
0 Download
Last update date on 5/18/24
How are these indicators produced

Altmetric

Share

Gmail Facebook Twitter LinkedIn More