Europeanisation of Slovak Parties´Programmatic Documents for EP Elections: A Drop in the Bucke, or a Light at the End of the Tunnel?
Europeanisation of Slovak Parties´Programmatic Documents for EP Elections: A Drop in the Bucket, or a Light at the End of the Tunnel?

Summary/Abstract: Elections to the European Parliament fall within the category of second-order elections. Because there is less at stake in these types of contests voters behave differently when casting votes. But the questions remains: do political parties also perceive that there is less at stake in these elections and behave differently than in national first-order elections? This paper conducts a content analysis, whithin a comparative framework, of selected Slovak political parties´Euromanifestos feature an apparent degree of Europeanisation and exhibited only limited second-order characteristics.

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