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The EU Agenda as an Emerging Cleavage of Political Competition? Parties and Their Voters in Slovakia

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European Parliament (EP) elections are somehow odd elections. As Michael Marsh and Mark Franklin said several years ago they are ‘neither really European nor proper elections’.1 They are not proper elections because the European Union (EU) executive is not directly affected by the outcome of the European elections in the member countries. This means that EP elections do not initiate a process of government formation as in parliamentary democracies. And they are not European because the electoral competition is not driven by the European agenda.

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  1. Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Olga Gyárfášová

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  1. Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

    Ruxandra Boicu

  2. Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

    Silvia Branea

  3. Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

    Adriana Stefanel

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Gyárfášová, O. (2017). The EU Agenda as an Emerging Cleavage of Political Competition? Parties and Their Voters in Slovakia. In: Boicu, R., Branea, S., Stefanel, A. (eds) Political Communication and European Parliamentary Elections in Times of Crisis. Political Campaigning and Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58591-2_11

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