The 2009 Elections to the European Parliament

An analysis of the 2009 European elections in each of the 27 member states of the newly enlarged European Union, and assessment of the European Parliament in 2004-2009. This book looks at the implications of low turnout for the future of European Union democracy and accountability.

DAUNIS AUERS Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the Department of Political Science, University of Latvia STEFANO BRAGHIROLI PhD candidate at the Centre for the Study of Political Change (CIRCaP), University of Siena, Italy RICHARD CORBETT Adviser to EU President Van Rompuy JACOB CHRISTENSEN Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Southern Denmark FLEMMING JUUL CHRISTIANSEN Post-doctoral Researcher in Political Science at Aarhus University, Denmark CHRISTOPHOROS CHRISTOPHOROU Assistant Professor in Communications at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus ALINA DOBREVA Research Associate of the Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence, University of Leeds, UK HENRY FRENDO Senior Professor of History at the University of Malta DEREK HEARL Retired Assistant Professor of European Politics at the Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus, and Associate of the JMECE, Leeds, UK BALAZS HORVATHY Junior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies, and Assistant Professor at Szechenyi Istvan University Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Hungary ARNOUT JUSTAERT Academic Assistant and PhD Researcher at the Institute for International and European Policy, University of Leuven, Belgium ALENKA KRA OVEC Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia DAMJAN LAJH Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia ANDRÁS LÁSZLÓ PAPSenior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies, Hungary and Professor of Law at Kodolányi János SIMON LIGHTFOOT Senior Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Leeds, UK JOSÉ M. MAGONE Professor of Global and Regional Governance at the Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany PHILIPPE MARLIÈRE Reader in French and European Politics at University College London, UK DAMIAN MATHER Senior Lecturer in European Union Law at the Manchester Metropolitan University and member of the Manchester European Research Institute, UK ED MAXFIELD Doctoral Student at Sussex University, UK TERRY MAYER Associate of the Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence, University of Leeds, UK and Freelance Researcher EDWARD MOXON-BROWNE Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration, and Director of the Centre for European Studies at the University of Limerick, Ireland DANIEL NAGEL Associate of the law firm Bongen, Renaud& Partner, Germany; Associate of the Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence at the University of Leeds, UK TAPIO RAUNIO Professor of Political Science at the University of Tampere, Finland MALENA ROSÉN Assistant Professor at the Department of Global Studies at Malmö University College, Sweden LENKA ROVNÁ Jean Monnet Chair Ad Personam in European Studies at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic ANDERS SANNERSTEDT Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden KATHARINESARIKAKIS Senior Lecturer, Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK CHRISTIAN SCHWEIGER Lecturer in Government in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University, UK FRANCISCO SEOANE PÉREZ Doctoral Student at the University of Leeds, UK ANNEMARIE SPROKKEREEF Research Fellow at the Tilburg Institute for Law and Technology (TILT), University of Tilburg, the Netherlands ALEKS SZCZERBIAK Professor of Politics and Contemporary European Studies at the University of Sussex, UK, where he is also Co-Director of the Sussex European Institute DONATELLA M VIOLA Lecturer in Politics at the University of Calabria, Denmark