Introduction: How Different Were the European Elections of 2014?

Wouter van der Brug; Katjana Gattermann; Claes H. de Vreese

doi:10.17645/pag.v4i1.591

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Introduction: How Different Were the European Elections of 2014?

Wouter van der Brug Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Katjana Gattermann Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Amsterdam Centre for Contemporary European Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Claes H. de Vreese Amsterdam Centre for Contemporary European Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Abstract: This issue brings together papers that focus on the question of whether and in which ways the 2014 European Parliament elections were different from previous ones. This is important from the point of view of emerging scholarship on changes in the EU and from the point of view of the self-proclaimed ‘This time it’s different!’ slogan from the Parliament. The papers centre around three themes: 1) the role of the Spitzenkandidaten, 2) media and voters, and 3) electoral behaviour.

Keywords: campaigns; elections; European Parliament; media coverage; media effects; parties; Spitzenkandidaten; voting behaviour

Published: 29 February 2016

Issue: Vol 4, No 1 (2016): How Different Were the European Elections of 2014?

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v4i1.591

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ISSN: 2183-2463

Introduction: How Different Were the European Elections of 2014?