In this paper I analyze to what extent the Eurozone crisis has affected the representativeness of parties’ positions with respect to the issue of European integration. Public opinion data and many analyses have provided evidence that, since 2010, public support for the European Union (EU) has dramatically declined. In contrast, existing data on party positions indicates considerable stability in this area, particularly among mainstream parties. However, we still lack a comparative analysis of the evolution of citizens-representatives congruence since the start of the Eurozone crisis, and the factors that may affect variations in congruence levels. With this paper we fill this gap through using a unique dataset of parties and voter positions based on political elite and mass surveys carried out in nine EU countries in 2007, 2009 and 2014.

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关于欧盟的政党选民一致性：使用精英和大众调查分析其在欧元区危机期间的演变

在本文中，我分析了欧元区危机在多大程度上影响了各方在欧洲一体化问题上的立场的代表性。舆论数据和许多分析提供的证据表明，自 2010 年以来，公众对欧盟 (EU) 的支持急剧下降。相比之下，政党立场的现有数据表明该领域相当稳定，尤其是在主流政党中。然而，我们仍然缺乏对自欧元区危机开始以来公民代表一致性的演变以及可能影响一致性水平变化的因素的比较分析。在本文中，我们通过使用基于 2007、2009 和 2014 年在九个欧盟国家进行的政治精英和群众调查的政党和选民立场的独特数据集来填补这一空白。