BINZER HOBOLT, Sara; BROUARD, Sylvain

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BINZER HOBOLT, Sara
University of Oxford

BROUARD, Sylvain
Centre Émile Durkheim [CED]
Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques [FNSP]

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Political Research Quarterly. 2011-06, vol. 64, n° 2, p. 309-322

SAGE Publications (UK and US)

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The process of establishing a constitution for Europe came to an end when voters in France and the Netherlands rejected the proposal. Analyzing both media coverage and survey data, this article seeks to disentangle the reasons why a majority of voters rejected the European Constitution. The authors' findings suggest that the campaign played an important role in priming certain attitudes and that vote choices, in turn, were driven by specific issue concerns rather than general dissatisfaction with the European Union or national governments. These findings have implications not only for our understanding of direct democracy in Europe but also for the study of campaign effects.< Réduire

Mots clés

campagne électorale

politique

traité

Union européenne

référendum

comportement électoral

Mots clés en anglais

campaign

constitutional treaty

European Union

voting behavior

politic