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Consociation and voting in Northern Ireland: party competition and electoral behavior
In: National and ethnic conflict in the twenty-first century
Holding parties responsible at election time: Multi-level, multi-party government and electoral accountability
In: Electoral Studies, Band 34, S. 78-88
Potentially Voting across the Divide in Deeply Divided Places: Ethnic Catch-All Voting in Consociational Northern Ireland
In: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Band 62, Heft 1_suppl, S. 2-19
ISSN: 1467-9248
I elaborate a model of cross-bloc party support in deeply divided places. The model expects that the variation in the level of electoral support that citizens in Community A have for parties in Community B is a function of citizens' evaluations of the relative ability of parties in Community B to represent the interests of all communities. This 'ethnic catch-all' model of cross-bloc party support is tested in the context of consociational Northern Ireland, using data from a representative survey conducted directly after the 2010 Westminster general election. The findings are asymmetric: the model explains Protestant support for nationalist parties but not Catholic support for unionist parties. The findings, and their implications, are discussed.
Holding parties responsible at election time: Multi-level, multi-party government and electoral accountability
In: Electoral Studies, Band 34, S. 78-88
This paper highlights the crucial role played by party-specific responsibility attributions in performance-based voting. Three models of electoral accountability, which make distinct assumptions regarding citizens' ability to attribute responsibility to distinct governing parties, are tested in the challenging Northern Ireland context - an exemplar case of multi-level multi-party government in which expectations of performance based voting are low. The paper demonstrates the operation of party-attribution based electoral accountability, using data from the 2011 Northern Ireland Assembly Election Study. However, the findings are asymmetric: accountability operates in the Protestant/unionist bloc but not in the Catholic/nationalist bloc. This asymmetry may be explained by the absence of clear ethno-national ideological distinctions between the unionist parties (hence providing political space for performance based accountability to operate) but the continued relevance in the nationalist bloc of ethno-national difference (which limits the scope for performance politics). The implications of the findings for our understanding of the role of party-specific responsibility attribution in performance based models of voting, and for our evaluation of the quality of democracy in post-conflict consociational polities, are discussed. [Copyright Elsevier Ltd.]
Holding parties responsible at election time: multi-level, multi-party government and electoral accountability
In: Electoral studies: an international journal, Band 34, Heft June, S. 78-88
ISSN: 0261-3794
Potentially Voting across the Divide in Deeply Divided Places: Ethnic Catch-All Voting in Consociational Northern Ireland
In: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Band 62, Heft S1, S. 2-19
ISSN: 1467-9248
I elaborate a model of cross-bloc party support in deeply divided places. The model expects that the variation in the level of electoral support that citizens in Community A have for parties in Community B is a function of citizens' evaluations of the relative ability of parties in Community B to represent the interests of all communities. This 'ethnic catch-all' model of cross-bloc party support is tested in the context of consociational Northern Ireland, using data from a representative survey conducted directly after the 2010 Westminster general election. The findings are asymmetric: the model explains Protestant support for nationalist parties but not Catholic support for unionist parties. The findings, and their implications, are discussed. Adapted from the source document.
Emotions and voting in EU referendums
In: European Union politics: EUP, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 235-254
ISSN: 1741-2757
There is an emerging scholarship on the emotional bases of political opinion and behaviour and, in particular, the contrasting implications of two distinct negative emotions - anger and anxiety. I apply the insights in this literature to the previously unresearched realm of the emotional bases of voting in EU referendums. I hypothesise that anxious voters rely on substantive EU issues and angry voters rely on second-order factors relating to domestic politics (partisanship and satisfaction with government). Focusing on the case of Irish voting in the Fiscal Compact referendum, and using data from a representative sample of voters, I find support for the hypotheses and discuss the implications of the findings for our understanding of the emotional conditionality of EU referendum voting. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd., copyright holder.]
Holding parties responsible at election time: Multi-level, multi-party government and electoral accountability
In: Electoral studies: an international journal, Band 34, S. 78-88
ISSN: 0261-3794
Emotions and voting in EU referendums
In: European Union politics: EUP, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 235-254
ISSN: 1465-1165
Emotions and voting in EU referendums
In: European Union politics: EUP, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 235-254
ISSN: 1741-2757
There is an emerging scholarship on the emotional bases of political opinion and behaviour and, in particular, the contrasting implications of two distinct negative emotions – anger and anxiety. I apply the insights in this literature to the previously unresearched realm of the emotional bases of voting in EU referendums. I hypothesise that anxious voters rely on substantive EU issues and angry voters rely on second-order factors relating to domestic politics (partisanship and satisfaction with government). Focusing on the case of Irish voting in the Fiscal Compact referendum, and using data from a representative sample of voters, I find support for the hypotheses and discuss the implications of the findings for our understanding of the emotional conditionality of EU referendum voting.
Direct democracy and regional integration: Citizens' perceptions of treaty implications and the Irish reversal on Lisbon
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research, Band 52, Heft 1, S. 94-118
ISSN: 1475-6765
Analyses of voting in European Union referendums typically distinguish between 'second-order' effects and the impact of substantive 'issues'. In order to explain change in referendum outcome, two types of substantive issues are distinguished in this article. Focusing on Irish voting in the Lisbon Treaty referendums and using data from post-referendum surveys, it is found that perceptions of treaty implications outperform underlying attitudes to EU integration in predicting vote choice at both referendums, and perceptions of treaty implications are strong predictors of vote change between the referendums. The findings have broadly positive implications for normative assessments of the usefulness of direct democracy as a tool for legitimising regional integration advance. Adapted from the source document.
Direct democracy and regional integration: citizens' perceptions of treaty implications and the Irish reversal on Lisbon
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research, Band 52, Heft 1, S. 94-118
ISSN: 0304-4130
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Direct democracy and regional integration: Citizens' perceptions of treaty implications and the Irish reversal on Lisbon
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research, Band 52, Heft 1, S. 94-118
ISSN: 1475-6765
AbstractAnalyses of voting in European Union referendums typically distinguish between 'second‐order' effects and the impact of substantive 'issues'. In order to explain change in referendum outcome, two types of substantive issues are distinguished in this article. Focusing on Irish voting in the Lisbon Treaty referendums and using data from post‐referendum surveys, it is found that perceptions of treaty implications outperform underlying attitudes to EU integration in predicting vote choice at both referendums, and perceptions of treaty implications are strong predictors of vote change between the referendums. The findings have broadly positive implications for normative assessments of the usefulness of direct democracy as a tool for legitimising regional integration advance.