Europe Elects a Parliament: Cognitive Mobilization, Political Mobilization and Pro‐European Attitudes as Influences on Voter Turnout
- 1 October 1979
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Government and Opposition
- Vol. 14 (4) , 479-507
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1979.tb00258.x
Abstract
In June 1979, 110,968,000 citizens of the nine European Community countries voted to select representatives to the European Parliament - the fvst directlyelected supranational parliament in history. Representatives from nine nations sit together as members of transnational party federations that have, in varying degrees, worked out joint political programmes. As a democratically elected body, the new European Parliament possesses a political legitimacy that the former, appointed, Parliament never had. By itself, this does not automatically give it a more influential role in decision-making at the European level, but it certainly strengthens the Parliament's potential to do so.Keywords
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