[MGSA-L] Fwd: Article on GREEK EURO-ELECTION MANIFESTOS 1994-2009

Roland Moore rolandmo at pacbell.net
Thu May 1 14:08:24 PDT 2014


From: Susannah Verney <deplan at otenet.gr>

Given the European elections later this month, some members of the MGSA list might be interested in the attached article analysing the manifestos of the Greek parties in the last four Euro-elections.
Susannah


PARTY ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE EU IN THE MEMBER STATES 
Parties for Europe, Parties Against Europe
Edited by Nicolo Conti
Routledge, 2014

Case study
'Greece' by Susannah Verney with Sofia Michalaki

Between the Maastricht Treaty and the eurozone crisis, the central question in the Greek European debate was no longer 'to be or not to be in the EU' but 'what kind of Europe'. The analysis of Euro-election manifestos (1994-2009) investigates the salience of European integration in party competition strategies and party positions on issues of identity, representation and scope of governance in the EU. Three theoretical predictions are tested: that government incumbents, the party system core and the right will be more integration-supportive than opposition, peripheral and left-wing parties respectively. The findings, often confounding expectations, include the lower salience of integration for the two parties of power, the generally negative assessment of current EU democracy and a majority preference for supranational decision-making. The fundamental distinction lay between supporters and opponents of deepening, where a broad consensus favouring further integration reveals the pre-crisis party system as overwhelmingly pro-European. 
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