Consideration and Choice: Analyzing Party Choice in the Swedish European Election 2014

摘要: For a long time the question of to what extent party choice in European Parliament (EP) elections is primarily dependent on voters’ orientations towards Union (EU) or just mere reflection issues and actors national politics has been debated. By combining insights from individual-level models second-order with theories sequential decision making this article investigates if, how at stages process attitudes integration matters for choice. In line previous work first second rule criteria EP elections, develops tests hypotheses about different voter process. The findings, based Swedish data probability-based three-wave Internet campaign panel, indicate that many voters are fact considering more than one vote beginning election campaign. As expected, left-right function as main respect which parties even consider voting for, while proximity dimension mainly final stage Using model consideration stages, reveals much larger complimentary effect EU generally found research. This serves distinct contribution emerging research field individual elections.