Regarding the Dutch `Nee' to the European Constitution
Abstract In June 2005, 61.5% of the Dutch voted `nee' in the referendum on the European constitution. In the present contribution I test hypotheses from the national identity, utilitarian and political approaches to explain this voting behaviour. I collected data in the Netherlands to test whether one of those approaches has been decisive in explaining the referendum outcome. I also provide information about whether specific EU evaluations from these approaches explain the voting behaviour, thus bringing in the discussion on the importance of domestic political evaluations (second-order electi... Mehr ...
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2011 |
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Verlag/Hrsg.: |
Sage Publications
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Schlagwörter: | European constitution / Euroscepticism / national identity / referendum / The Netherlands |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26663343 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/2262/52486 |