Euro-Skepticism in the EU Accession Countries

Beichelt, Timm

doi:10.1057/palgrave.cep.6110024

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“…The Polish Peasant Party (PSL [Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe]) advocated for a tough negotiating stance on this issue and threatened to keep the tariffs on the European agricultural products (Beichelt, 2004). On the economic side, Polish farmers were widely portrayed as the losers of integration.…”

Section: Anti-eu Frames In Polish Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

Historical Legacies of Interethnic Competition

Charnysh

2015

Comparative Political Studies

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How do historical legacies shape contemporary political outcomes? The article proposes a novel attitudinal mechanism through which distant interethnic competition can influence political preferences in the present. It theorizes that historically conditioned predispositions at the local level can moderate the effects of national-level framing of a policy issue. Using Poland as a test case, I show that subnational variation in support for EU accession was influenced by populist claims about the increase in Jewish influence in the postaccession period. Anti-Semitic cues resonated with voters in areas with historically large Jewish populations and a contentious interethnic past, where latent anti-Semitism persisted throughout the communist period. To provide evidence for this argument, the article draws on rich historical and contemporary data at the county, town, and individual level of analysis and utilizes novel research methods.

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Section: Anti-eu Frames In Polish Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

Historical Legacies of Interethnic Competition

Charnysh

2015

Comparative Political Studies

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“…the East, and certainly much less dramatic than some authors suggested (e.g. Beichelt, 2004). Quite spectacular, however, is the lack of a green electorate among post-communist voters, and, as we have seen before, the fact that many of the Eastern votes elected representatives who could not decide which parliamentary party to join (Table 2).…”

Section: The 2004 Election Results -East and West Comparedmentioning

confidence: 76%

The EU Party System after Eastern Enlargement

Schmitz

Thomassen

2009

Journal of European Integration

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teaching and research staff, visiting professors, graduate students, visiting fellows, and invited participants in seminars, workshops, and conferences. As usual, authors bear full responsibility for the content of their contributions. AbstractFrom 1953 on, a party system of the European Union has been build up with, at the end, some 6 or 7 distinct and more or less cohesive parties acting in parliament and beyond. It has been said that this party system was "ready for power" during the 5 th legislature of the directly elected European Parliament. In this article we ask whether and how Eastern enlargement has changed this state of affairs. The result of the empirical analysis is remarkably ambivalent: first, Eastern enlargement has increased the proportion of "homeless" MEPs, i.e. the non-aligned, and has at the same time added to the strength of the conservative majority of the house. Second, it did not significantly affect the format of the party system nor the stature of its political groups, neither their distinctiveness nor their cohesiveness. And third, the parties from the new Eastern member countries are not yet very well "rooted" in their national electorates. This is why the diagnosis of this early examination has to remain somewhat inconclusive -probably for some years to come. ZusammenfassungSeit 1953

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“…In fact, Czech Republic has acquired the status of the most Eurosceptic Central and Eastern European (CEE) country both at the mass level and the political party level (Kopecký & Mudde, 2002). Among CEE countries, Czech Republic and Poland are the only ones where major Eurosceptic political parties win representation in the national and European parliament (Beichelt, 2004;Taggart & Szczerbiak, 2008). On the other hand, no major Eurosceptic political party win representation in both European and national parliament.…”

Section: Representation Of Women In Second-order Electionsmentioning

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Representation of Women in Second-order Elections: The Czech Republic and Slovakia Compared

Kovář

2013

Perspectives on European Politics and Society

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Euro-Skepticism in the EU Accession Countries

Cited by 31 publications

References 4 publications

Historical Legacies of Interethnic Competition

Historical Legacies of Interethnic Competition

The EU Party System after Eastern Enlargement

Representation of Women in Second-order Elections: The Czech Republic and Slovakia Compared

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