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European Union Politics, Vol. 3, No. 1, 33-58 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/1465116502003001003

Ideology, Nationality and Euro-Parliamentarians

Abdul G. Noury

Département d'Economie Appliquée de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles and European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belguim anoury{at}ulb.ac.be

This article analyzes the voting behavior of Euro-parliamentarians. The roll-call data from the plenary sessions of the European Parliament (EP) during the third and fourth legislatures are used to estimate legislators' preferences. Applying the spatial models of roll-call voting to the EP, I investigate the dimensions underlying legislators' voting behavior. I focus on the relative importance of ideology (i.e. European-wide political party affiliation) versus nationality as the main factor influencing voting behavior. The results support the existence of a European political system in which the main actors are political groups, not national delegations. Also, the pattern of voting in the EP is found to be quite stable across time and issues. Moreover, after taking into account Members' political party affiliations, nationality becomes, though to a lesser extent, statistically significant in explaining legislators' ideal positions.

Key Words: legislatures • voting behavior • European Parliament • European Union


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