RT Journal Article
T1 Deciding about the unknown: The effect of party and ideological cues on forming opinions about the European Union
A1 Orriols Galve, Lluis
A1 Torcal, Mariano
A1 Martini, Sergio
AB This article contributes to the literature on political heuristics by reporting two survey experiments conducted in Spain in 2014-2015 on party and ideology cues regarding preferences on a range of European Union and domestic issues in European and general elections. The findings reveal that party cues increase voters' competence to take positions on European Union issues more than ideological ones. Cues increase competence in a similar fashion regardless of the nature of the topic, although the effect of cues that parties provide on European Union issues seems to be stronger than that of cues on domestic policies. Party cueing effects are also consistent across different electoral arenas (national vs. European), and for all types of parties regardless of their age or positions toward the European Union integration process.
PB SAGE Publications
SN 1465-1165
YR 2018
FD 2018-09-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/34826
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/34826
LA eng
NO The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was funded by the project ‘Crisis y Reto en la Ciudadanía en España: Actitudes y Comportamiento Político de los Españoles Ante la Crisis Económica y de Representación Política (CIUPANEL)’, Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MIMECO), code: CSO2013-47071-R (2014–2016)
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