The Supply Side of Second-Order Elections in the Czech Republic: A Light at the End of the Tunnel?
This paper attempts to contribute to the debate on the Europeanization of European Parliament elections. Because these elections are supposedly fought over national political issues, the analysis focuses on one aspect of political parties’ supply for these elections, namely their election programmes...
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| description | This paper attempts to contribute to the debate on the Europeanization of European Parliament elections. Because these elections are supposedly fought over national political issues, the analysis focuses on one aspect of political parties’ supply for these elections, namely their election programmes. To this aim, a content analysis is conducted, within a comparative framework, of selected Czech political parties’ programmatic documents. At the same time, the question is asked: to what extent do these programmes offer EU-level solutions—in other words, in terms of issues, does Europeanization or domestication prevail in the manifestos? The results show that parties focus on EU issues in their Euro manifestos and feature an apparent degree of Europeanization of this part of their supply for EP elections. From this perspective, these results can be considered a light at the end of the (second-order) tunnel, given that at least the programmatic part of parties’ supply is about European integration after all. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-1469e5e6e16e473e88202cfdbee6e7a52025-08-20T03:26:22ZengEuropean Institute of RomaniaRomanian Journal of European Affairs1582-82711841-42732013-03-011315782The Supply Side of Second-Order Elections in the Czech Republic: A Light at the End of the Tunnel?Jan Kovar0PhD Candidate, Department of International Relations and European Studies, Metropolitan University Prague, Czech RepublicThis paper attempts to contribute to the debate on the Europeanization of European Parliament elections. Because these elections are supposedly fought over national political issues, the analysis focuses on one aspect of political parties’ supply for these elections, namely their election programmes. To this aim, a content analysis is conducted, within a comparative framework, of selected Czech political parties’ programmatic documents. At the same time, the question is asked: to what extent do these programmes offer EU-level solutions—in other words, in terms of issues, does Europeanization or domestication prevail in the manifestos? The results show that parties focus on EU issues in their Euro manifestos and feature an apparent degree of Europeanization of this part of their supply for EP elections. From this perspective, these results can be considered a light at the end of the (second-order) tunnel, given that at least the programmatic part of parties’ supply is about European integration after all.https://rjea.ier.gov.ro/wp-content/uploads/articole/RJEA_2013_vol13_no1_art.4.pdfeuropean parliament electionssecond-order electionspolitical partieseuropeanizationelection manifestos |
| spellingShingle | Jan Kovar The Supply Side of Second-Order Elections in the Czech Republic: A Light at the End of the Tunnel? Romanian Journal of European Affairs european parliament elections second-order elections political parties europeanization election manifestos |
| title | The Supply Side of Second-Order Elections in the Czech Republic: A Light at the End of the Tunnel? |
| title_full | The Supply Side of Second-Order Elections in the Czech Republic: A Light at the End of the Tunnel? |
| title_fullStr | The Supply Side of Second-Order Elections in the Czech Republic: A Light at the End of the Tunnel? |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Supply Side of Second-Order Elections in the Czech Republic: A Light at the End of the Tunnel? |
| title_short | The Supply Side of Second-Order Elections in the Czech Republic: A Light at the End of the Tunnel? |
| title_sort | supply side of second order elections in the czech republic a light at the end of the tunnel |
| topic | european parliament elections second-order elections political parties europeanization election manifestos |
| url | https://rjea.ier.gov.ro/wp-content/uploads/articole/RJEA_2013_vol13_no1_art.4.pdf |
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