Experimental Evidence of EU Issue Voting

Abstract The chapter focuses on the consequences of EU politicization electoral behaviour. It investigates whether and under which conditions citizens consider their positions when casting a vote in national elections. First, we use conjoint experiment to investigate magnitude issue voting six countries. This design allows us cope with possible endogeneity problems while simulating complexity task faced by real voters. Second, link media data presented previous chapters experiment’s results explore how is influenced informational context. main several robustness checks show that almost all countries analysed respondents are more likely for party shares own position than does not. However, it seems not types voter-party incongruence have same consequences. Finally, findings also suggest relationship between content voting.