Europeans on their way. Three rounds of EP elections in Romania

Since the 2007 integration of Romania in the European Union, three elections took place, in order to select the representatives of this country in the European Parliament. The current article has two main objectives: to test the main theories regarding the EP elections, mainly the second order elect...

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Main Author: Ovidiu Vaida
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Facultatea de Stiinte Politice, SNSPA 2017-06-01
Series:Sfera Politicii
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Online Access:http://www.sferapoliticii.ro/sfera/189-190/art08-Vaida.php
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description Since the 2007 integration of Romania in the European Union, three elections took place, in order to select the representatives of this country in the European Parliament. The current article has two main objectives: to test the main theories regarding the EP elections, mainly the second order elections one (a) and to look for some explanations for the particular outcome of the Romanian EP electoral results (b). Despite some particularities, one may notice that the European elections in Romania do not produce results that are spectacularly different from those in the EU.
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Europeans on their way. Three rounds of EP elections in Romania
Sfera Politicii
European elections
second order elections
Romania
European Parliament
title Europeans on their way. Three rounds of EP elections in Romania
title_full Europeans on their way. Three rounds of EP elections in Romania
title_fullStr Europeans on their way. Three rounds of EP elections in Romania
title_full_unstemmed Europeans on their way. Three rounds of EP elections in Romania
title_short Europeans on their way. Three rounds of EP elections in Romania
title_sort europeans on their way three rounds of ep elections in romania
topic European elections
second order elections
Romania
European Parliament
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