O seminário SPARC de 13 de abril contará com a presença de Mariana Carmo Duarte (European University Institute), que apresentará o artigo "Do you Always Toe the Line?: The Influence of Party Cues on Public Opinion Formation in the 2019 European Parliament Election". 

O evento terá lugar na sala 2 do ICS-ULisboa e online, através do link: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/96158675801. 

Sumário do artigo (em inglês): 

Political parties are central actors both in the process of politicisation of the European Union (EU) and in opinion formation. The existing research has demonstrated that citizens’ views on societal issues are not independent of their party identification. A vast number of scholars argue that citizens take the cues on European issues provided by the political parties they support. However, little is known about the contextual conditions under which party cues about Europe are effective for public opinion formation. I exploit the case of the 2019 European Parliament (EP) election as a moment of party politicisation of the EU. Drawing on post-electoral survey data, I leverage variation in the timing of interviews with reference to the election day as a measure of exposure to party conflict and EU issue salience. The results indicate that the positive effect of party cues on public opinion formation on EU issues decreased after the 2019 EP election has taken place. This evidence suggests that partisan identification is more strongly activated for opinion formation on the EU in moments of intense party conflict, which make parties’ positions clearer and more easily available.