Izbori za Evropski parlament: od nacionalnih izbora drugog reda do evropeizovanog drugorazrednog takmičenja
The European Parliament Elections: From the Second-Order National Elections to the Europeanize d Second-Order Contest

Summary/Abstract: By analyzing the case of the 2019 European Parliament elections, the article examines the hypothesis about the second-order character of elections to the European Parliament. Moving within the theoretical framework that has been developing since the first direct EP elections in 1979, we critically examine the conditions in which the last electoral cycle took place and we look for the novelties that could have impacted the changing of this prevalent paradigm. Although we find certain changes that contribute to the ’Europeanization’ of these elections, we conclude that the most previous hypotheses are still valid confirming that we are still dealing with the secondorder electoral contest. The last European Parliament elections, as well as the subsequent European chief executive election process, brought new circumstances that could even contribute to maintaining the second-order character of the EP elections.

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