POLICY REPRESENTATION

This paper examines the extent to which conditions for the 'representa tive party government' model of representation exist in the EU. It sug gests that, although application of the model is obviously limited, th ere is some support for its relevance. Using surveys of voters and can didates for the European Parliament the paper shows that some policy p ositions of representatives are constrained more by their party group than their nationality, and to some degree there is obvious congruence between the opinions of candidates and their voters. This is particul arly so with respect to left-right orientation; far less with respect to European Monetary Union where elites appear much more enthusiastic than their electorates.