‘This time I’m (not) voting’: A comprehensive overview of campaign factors influencing turnout at European Parliament elections
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‘This time I’m (not) voting’ : A comprehensive overview of campaign factors influencing turnout at European Parliament elections. / Marquart, Franziska; Goldberg, Andreas C.; de Vreese, Claes H.
I: European Union Politics, Bind 21, Nr. 4, 01.12.2020, s. 680-705.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - ‘This time I’m (not) voting’
T2 - A comprehensive overview of campaign factors influencing turnout at European Parliament elections
AU - Marquart, Franziska
AU - Goldberg, Andreas C.
AU - de Vreese, Claes H.
PY - 2020/12/1
Y1 - 2020/12/1
N2 - Research has investigated numerous factors influencing turnout for European Parliament elections but paid insufficient attention to the role of campaign influences. Using survey data collected in the context of the 2019 European Parliament elections, we assess citizens’ passive exposure to media coverage and political advertisements, active forms of engagement such as visiting a party’s website and interpersonal communication on- and offline. We test to which extent these activities contribute to the likelihood that citizens vote. Our study highlights the importance of information factors beyond well-established turnout determinants. The results confirm the mobilizing influence of a number of variables, but we also find consistent negative effects of online forms of communication and engagement. We discuss these findings with regard to a potentially ‘toxic’ online information environment.
AB - Research has investigated numerous factors influencing turnout for European Parliament elections but paid insufficient attention to the role of campaign influences. Using survey data collected in the context of the 2019 European Parliament elections, we assess citizens’ passive exposure to media coverage and political advertisements, active forms of engagement such as visiting a party’s website and interpersonal communication on- and offline. We test to which extent these activities contribute to the likelihood that citizens vote. Our study highlights the importance of information factors beyond well-established turnout determinants. The results confirm the mobilizing influence of a number of variables, but we also find consistent negative effects of online forms of communication and engagement. We discuss these findings with regard to a potentially ‘toxic’ online information environment.
KW - Campaign
KW - European Parliament elections
KW - political communication
KW - survey research
KW - turnout
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85088596249&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1465116520943670
DO - 10.1177/1465116520943670
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85088596249
VL - 21
SP - 680
EP - 705
JO - European Union Politics
JF - European Union Politics
SN - 1465-1165
IS - 4
ER -
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