articleComparative Political StudiesOct 1, 2002Closed access

Does Left/Right Structure Party Positions on European Integration?

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Abstract

How is contestation on European integration structured among national political parties? Are issues arising from European integration assimilated into existing dimensions of domestic contestation? We show that there is a strong relationship between the conventional left/right dimension and party positioning on European integration. However, the most powerful source of variation in party support is the new politics dimension, ranging from Green/alternative/libertarian to Traditional/authoritarian/nationalist.

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Keywords
  • Dimension (graph theory)
  • Politics
  • Authoritarianism
  • Political science
  • Nationalism
  • Political economy
  • European integration
  • Left and right
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Reduced inequalities
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