An analysis of the public’s personal, national and EU issue priorities
An analysis of the public’s personal, national and EU issue priorities
Scholars characterize decision-making in the European Union (EU) as increasingly dispersed across different levels of political authority. This has implications for political representation. Yet, little is known about whether and how public opinion differs across levels of governance. In this paper, we consider evaluations of issue priorities. Specifically, we use data from the Eurobarometer to evaluate the degree of correspondence between issues that citizens consider important to them personally, to their country and to the EU. We find generally weak relationships between different levels of governance, which suggests national issue priorities are distinct from both personal and EU priorities. The results indicate that more careful research is needed to understand how public priorities at different levels affect politics and policy in the EU
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Bevan, Shaun
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Jennings, Will
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Wlezien, Christopher
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2016
Bevan, Shaun
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Jennings, Will
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Wlezien, Christopher
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Bevan, Shaun, Jennings, Will and Wlezien, Christopher
(2016)
An analysis of the public’s personal, national and EU issue priorities.
Journal of European Public Policy, 23 (6), .
(doi:10.1080/13501763.2015.1070191).
Abstract
Scholars characterize decision-making in the European Union (EU) as increasingly dispersed across different levels of political authority. This has implications for political representation. Yet, little is known about whether and how public opinion differs across levels of governance. In this paper, we consider evaluations of issue priorities. Specifically, we use data from the Eurobarometer to evaluate the degree of correspondence between issues that citizens consider important to them personally, to their country and to the EU. We find generally weak relationships between different levels of governance, which suggests national issue priorities are distinct from both personal and EU priorities. The results indicate that more careful research is needed to understand how public priorities at different levels affect politics and policy in the EU
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Accepted/In Press date: 1 July 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: 25 August 2015
Published date: 2016
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Politics & International Relations
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Local EPrints ID: 378605
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/378605
ISSN: 1350-1763
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