How Politicians Ought to Talk About Europe: Lessons Learned from Experimental Evidence

Abstract

Referendums about the political authority of the European Union offer campaigners the opportunity to establish issue links between Europe and other topics, which can be more or less closely related. Because of this, and also as the result of a long tradition of second-ordering European issues to national affairs, the choices of voters in referendums about Europe are never entirely about the issue at hand.