Effects of space and time on turnout in European Parliament elections

European Elections and Domestic Politics: Lessons from the Past and Scenarios for the Future

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 13-31

  Franklin, Mark N ^a  

^a European University Institute   (United States)

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1. Schmitt and Mannheimer (1991) and van der Eijk and Franklin (1996). Blondel, Sinnott, and Svensson (1997, 1998) did find some impact of attitudes to Europe, but it is not clear that all confounding influences were controlled in their analysis. Attitudes to European Parliamentary institutions are part of a syndrome of attitudes toward democratic institutions in general. Those who think little of such institutions are less likely to vote in any elections, not just elections to the European Parliament (van der Eijk and Oppenhuis 1990; van der Eijk and Schmitt 1991). If the only indicator of this syndrome included in an analysis is one that measures attitudes to European institutions, then it is attitudes to Europe that appear to play a role.