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Dieses Buch untersucht mit Hilfe politik�konomischer Theorien den Entscheidungsprozess innerhalb der Europ�ischen Union. Hierbei werden zum einen die Relevanz und die Methodik unterschiedlicher Theorien beim Analysieren des politischen Systems der EU erl�utert, zum anderen wird die Prognosekraft der aus diesen Theorien abgeleiteten Hypothesen empirisch �berpr�ft. Das Buch vermittelt einen Einblick in den EU-Gesetzgebungsprozess sowie in die internen Entscheidungsfindungsstrukturen der Europ�ischen Kommission, des Ministerrates, des Europ�ischen Parlaments und der Europ�ischen Zentralbank.

AbstractNegative campaign advertising is a major component of the electoral landscape, and has received much attention in the literature. In many studies, political scientists have tried to explain why some campaign ads contain more negative messages than others and to identify the determinants of this form of campaign behavior. In recent years, a number of studies have acknowledged the differences between alternative measures of negativity, but, in most cases, it is assumed that since these measures are highly correlated, they are unidimensional and essentially interchangeable. In this article, we argue that much of the debate in the literature over negative campaigning is a result of inadequate operationalizations of negativity. Although debates over negativity have often been framed in conceptual terms, there is a methodological explanation for why they persist We begin our analysis by constructing reliable scales of negativity, and model them with salient predictors reported in the literature as significantly associated with campaign attacks. Our findings show that scaling does matter, and while some of the explanatory variables are robust predictors of negativity, most of them are not.