The Awakening of the Sleeping Beauty? Belgian Partitocracy and European Integration

One of the major puzzles for contemporary European political science is how and to what extent the process of European integration has affected national politics, not only in terms of Europeanization of national policies and institutions, but also in terms of effects on electoral campaigns, mass voting behaviour, political attitudes and changes in the political supply (Goetz & Hix, 2012). From the supply side, national elites can see European integration as a challenge or an opportunity. In particular, the ways in which elites, and specifically political parties either in government or in... Mehr ...