The European Parliament Election of 2019 in East-Central Europe : Second-Order Euroscepticism

This book provides an analysis of the European Parliament elections 2019 with a focus on East-Central European countries. The authors offer conceptual insights into Euroscepticism and discuss traditionally familiar concepts in a new light, pairing East-Central European Euroscepticism with visions of illiberal democracy, on the one hand, and showing the increasing Europeanisation of Eurosceptic parties in the region, on the other. The book combines a fresh and innovative conceptual treatment with rich and accurate empirical evidence in order to highlight the dynamics of Euroscepticism in "new" EU member states. Students and experts interested in EU politics, within academia and beyond, will find this volume particularly informative. Vít Hloušek is Professor of European Politics at the Department of International Relations and European Studies and Head of the International Institute of Political Science, Masaryk University, Czech Republic. Petr Kaniok is Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations and European Studies, Masaryk University, Czech Republic This book provides an analysis of the European Parliament elections 2019 with a focus on East-Central European countries. The authors offer conceptual insights into Euroscepticism and discuss traditionally familiar concepts in a new light, pairing East-Central European Euroscepticism with visions of illiberal democracy, on the one hand, and showing the increasing Europeanisation of Eurosceptic parties in the region, on the other. The book combines a fresh and innovative conceptual treatment with rich and accurate empirical evidence in order to highlight the dynamics of Euroscepticism in "new" EU member states. Students and experts interested in EU politics, within academia and beyond, will find this volume particularly informative. Vít Hloušek is Professor of European Politics at the Department of International Relations and European Studies and Head of the International Institute of Political Science, Masaryk University, Czech Republic. Petr Kaniok is Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations and European Studies, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Theorising East-Central European Euroscepticism in the Light of the European Parliament Elections (Vít Hloušek, Petr Kaniok)....Pages 1-16 Republic of Bulgaria (Dragomir Stoyanov, Plamen Ralchev)....Pages 17-38 Croatia (Goran Čular, Marijana Grbeša)....Pages 39-60 Czech Republic (Vít Hloušek, Petr Kaniok)....Pages 61-82 Estonia (Piret Ehin, Tõnis Saarts, Mari-Liis Jakobson)....Pages 83-105 Hungary (Krisztina Arató)....Pages 107-130 Latvia (Daunis Auers)....Pages 131-150 Lithuania (Liutauras Gudžinskas, Tomas Bekišas)....Pages 151-174 Poland (Aleks Szczerbiak)....Pages 175-199 Romania (Sorina Soare, Claudiu D. Tufiș)....Pages 201-227 Slovakia (Marek Rybář)....Pages 229-251 Slovenia (Alenka Krašovec, Damjan Lajh)....Pages 253-275 Euroscepticism, Parties, Voters and Politicisation in the 2019 Campaigns for the European Parliament Elections in Central and Eastern Europe (Vít Hloušek, Petr Kaniok)....Pages 277-292 Back Matter ....Pages 293-297