A key element of the European Union's (EU) attempt to foster citizens' EU identification is its goal to improve citizens' quality of life via its Cohesion policy (CP). Although recent findings demonstrate that the allocation of CP money positively affects sub-national parties' positions on EU integration and CP, we still do not know if sub-national parties actually talk about CP issues in their manifestos. Using a unique data set based on manually coded 812 manifestos written by 95 different parties in 47 regions in Germany, Spain, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom between 2007 and 2016, it is argued that several party-level characteristics are decisive for sub-national parties' emphasis of CP issues. Even though sub-national parties emphasize CP issues only to a small degree, the results of multilevel mixed-effects Tobit regressions show that it is particularly regional government parties which emphasize CP issues when drafting their regional election manifestos.

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有人在乎吗？地方政治中的凝聚力政策问题

欧盟 (EU) 试图促进公民对欧盟的认同的一个关键因素是其目标是通过其凝聚力政策 (CP) 提高公民的生活质量。尽管最近的调查结果表明，CP 资金的分配对地方政党对欧盟一体化和 CP 的立场产生了积极影响，但我们仍然不知道地方政党是否真的在其宣言中谈论了 CP 问题。使用基于 2007 年至 2016 年间德国、西班牙、荷兰和英国 47 个地区的 95 个不同政党编写的手动编码的 812 份宣言的独特数据集，有人认为几个政党层面的特征对于子国家政党对CP问题的重视。尽管地方政党只在很小程度上强调 CP 问题，