2019 European Elections

The EU Party Democracy and the Challenge of National Populism

Radu Carp, Cristina Matiuța (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2022
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-50413-4 (ISBN)

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The volume aims to combine the overall view on the role of the 2019 European Parliament elections in shaping the future European project with relevant case studies.

This volume aims to provide consolidated analyses of the 2019 European elections and explanations about the future of the European party system, in a context in which the EU has to face many challenges, including the erosion of electoral support for mainstream parties and the increasing success of populist parties. The structure of the book is designed to combine the overall view on the role of elections in shaping the future European project with relevant case studies.

The reader is given a perspective not only on the results of the European Parliament elections as such, but also on how these results are related to national trends which pre-exist and what kind of collateral effects on the quality of democracy they could have.

Contributors include: Jan Bíba, Sorin Bocancea, Dóra Bókay, Radu Carp, József Dúró, Tomáš Dvořák, Alexandra Alina Iancu, Ruxandra Ivan, Petra Jankovská, Małgorzata Madej, Cristina Matiuța, Sergiu Mișcoiu, Valentin Naumescu, Gianluca Piccolino, Leonardo Puleo, Alexandru Radu, Mihai Sebe, Sorina Soare, Tobias Spöri, Jeremias Stadlmair, Martin Štefek, Piotr Sula, and Jaroslav Ušiak.

Radu Carp, Ph.D., is Professor at the University of Bucharest, where he teaches Comparative Constitutional Law and European Governance. His most recent book is Does Politics Still Have a Meaning? The Instruments of Democracy and the Burden of Populism (in Romanian, Humanitas, 2018). Cristina Matiuța, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Oradea, Romania. Her latest book is entitled: Who I’m voting For? Dynamics of the Party System in Romania: 1990-2018 (in Romanian, European Institute, 2018).

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Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Radu Carp and Cristina Matiuța

Part 1: Stability, Change and Challenges for the EU Party System

1Answers and Dilemmas Following the 2019 European Elections

Valentin Naumescu

2The Demise of the Spitzenkandidaten System: decline of EU Democratization or (Euro)party Process of Adaptation?

Alexandra Alina Iancu

3Electoral Engineering for a European Demos: building European Identity through Elections

Ruxandra Ivan

4Towards a More Democratic European Union: how to Use the Elections for the European Parliament to Create a True Pan-European Constituency? Old Debates, New Challenges

Mihai Sebe

5The Citizens’ Perceptions ahead of the 2019 European Parliament Vote – The Accuracy of the Eurobarometer Democracy and Elections

Radu Carp

6The Exploitation for Populist Purposes of Difficulties in the EU – An Important Problem of the EU

Sorin Bocancea

Part 2: Case Studies

7Back on Track: the French Far Right’s (Narrow) Win in the 2019 European Elections

Sergiu Mișcoiu

8Europe Up for Grabs: an Italian Perspective

Gianluca Piccolino, Leonardo Puleo and Sorina Soare

9European Parliamentary Elections in Austria “Gone Ibiza”

Tobias Spöri and Jeremias Stadlmair

10A Dress Rehearsal: european Elections in Poland before the Parliamentary Race

Piotr Sula and Małgorzata Madej

11The 2019 European Parliament Elections in Hungary

József Dúró and Dóra Bókay

12Rise of Euroscepticism in Slovak Political Parties before Election to European Parliament: case of Rise of Extremism in Slovak Society

Jaroslav Ušiak and Petra Jankovská

13Ambiguity towards the EU as a Destiny of Czech Politics: the Case of the ANO Movement

Jan Bíba, Tomáš Dvořák and Martin Štefek

14The European Elections Campaign in Romania: between Contesting and Embracing the EU

Cristina Matiuța

15A Pattern of European Parliament Elections in Romania (2007–2019)

Alexandru Radu

Conclusions

Radu Carp and Cristina Matiuța

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.04.2022
Reihe/Serie	International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology ; 134
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10	90-04-50413-3 / 9004504133
ISBN-13	978-90-04-50413-4 / 9789004504134
Zustand	Neuware