The European Parliament Election of 2019 in East-Central Europe

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.

Offers comprehensive coverage of the EP 2019 elections from the view point of East-Central European countries Contributes to the literature on East-Central European politics vis-à-vis the EU more broadly Combines an innovative conceptual approach with rich empirical data

Autorentext

Vít** Hlouek 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.

Inhalt

1. Theorizing East Central European Euroscepticism in the Light of the European Parliament Elections (Vít Hlouek and Petr Kaniok).- 2. Republic of Bulgaria (Dragomir Stoyanov and Plamen Ralchev).- 3. Croatia (Goran ular and Marijana Grbea).- 4. Czech Republic (Vít Hlouek and Petr Kaniok).- 5. Estonia (Piret Ehin, Tõnis Saarts, and Mari-Liis Jakobson).- 6. Hungary (Krisztina Arato).- 7. Latvia (Daunis Auers).- 8. Lithuania (Liutauras Gudinskas and Tomas Bekias).- 9. Poland (Aleks Szczerbiak).- 10. Romania (Sorina Soare and Claudiu D. Tufi).- 11. Slovakia (Marek Rybá).- 12. Slovenia (Alenka Kraovec and Damjan Lajh).- 13. Euroscepticism, parties, voters and politicisation in the 2019 campaigns for the European Parliament elections in Central and Eastern Europe (Vít Hlouek and Petr Kaniok).