Choosing Europe?: The European Electorate and National Politics in the Face of Union

by Cees van der Eijk and Mark N. Franklin

This is a book about elections to the European Parliament, their failure to legitimate and control the exercise of power in the European Union, and the consequences of this failure for domestic politics in EU member states. It also sheds new light on why voters behave the way they do. The authors examine the 1989 Europe-wide elections with the aid of large-scale surveys fielded in all twelve member countries of the (then) European Community--placing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472103571
• ISBN13: 9780472103577
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"