The Impact of Election Campaigns on the Nationalization of Voting Behavior in Local Elections. A Case Study of the Antwerp Local Election Campaign Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Nonnational elections are at least partially determined by factors pertaining to the national level, which is problematic for the democratic functioning of these nonnational policy levels. Recent scholarly work has begun examining the impact of the election campaign on voters’ tendency to vote “nationally". However, these studies focus almost exclusively on European Union (EU) elections, and their findings may not be generalizable to other ...