ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR OF EUROPEAN ELECTORS IN THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS (1979-2009)

摘要

The paper aims to highlight the features of European voters behavior at the European elections, based on the correlation between political-electoral variables (voter turnout, political options) and various social, demographic and economic indicators (population density, urban population rate, professional structure of population, active population rate, unemployment rate, gross domestic product per capita, parity purchase power included, etc.). These particularities are highlighted with the aid of a combination between the principal component analysis and the hierarchical ascendant classification