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The Effect that Structural and Investment Funds have on Voter Behaviour in European Parliamentary Elections

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  • Nathan Henceroth
  • Rafael Oganesyan

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Structural and Investment Funds (SIFs) have become the European Union's most robust redistribution programme. In this article, we demonstrate that SIFs have grown large enough in scope that they are now beginning to function similarly to more established macroeconomic determinants of the vote such as unemployment and GDP growth in European Parliamentary elections. Moreover, SIFs have an electoral effect in a type of election that was previously assumed to be merely a referendum on national government performance: second‐order, EP elections. SIFs serve as an example of how robust public spending can have an electoral effect even in a second‐order election environment.

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  • Nathan Henceroth & Rafael Oganesyan, 2019. "The Effect that Structural and Investment Funds have on Voter Behaviour in European Parliamentary Elections," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 57(3), pages 599-615, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jcmkts:v:57:y:2019:i:3:p:599-615
    DOI: 10.1111/jcms.12837
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    1. Andrés Rodríguez-Pose & Lewis Dijkstra, 2021. "Does Cohesion Policy reduce EU discontent and Euroscepticism?," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 55(2), pages 354-369, February.
    2. Martin Gross, 2022. "Does Anyone Care? Cohesion Policy Issues in Sub‐national Politics," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 60(6), pages 1538-1555, November.
    3. Dana Kubenkova, 2023. "European Union Cohesion Policy and Euroscepticism: A Literature Review," RAIS Conference Proceedings 2022-2023 0260, Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies.

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