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Europeanised defiance : Czech Euroscepticism since 2004 /

Why is there so much reservation and scepticism among the Czech public as well as politicians towards the European Union? Has the experience of the Czech Republic as a member of the EU changed Czech Euroscepticism since 2004? The authors provide a detailed analysis of the dynamics of Euroscepticism...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Havlík, Vlastimil (Autor), Hloušek, Vít (Autor), Kaniok, Petr (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Opladen : Barbara Budrich Publishers, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover ; Europeanised Defiance
  • Czech Euroscepticism since 2004; Table of contents; 1. Czech Euroscepticism as an object of socialscientific research; 1.1 Study of Euroscepticism in the Czech Republic: state of the art and remaining challenges; 1.2 Aims and structure of the book; 1.3 Acknowledgements; 2. Defining the object of research and the concepts and methods used; 2.1 Czech Euroscepticism as a single-case study; 2.2 The concept of party Euroscepticism; 2.3 The concept of public Euroscepticism; 2.4 The conceptual treatment of Eurosceptic behaviour of a small state.
  • 2.6 Europeanisation of Euroscepticism as socialisation of political actors2.8 Actors of Czech Euroscepticism under study: criteria for selection; 2.9 Research methods; 3. Czech Euroscepticism before 2004: a survey; 3.1 Investigating the history of narratives of the Czech Euroscepticism; 3.2 The context and actors of Czech Euroscepticism prior to EU accession; 3.3 'Return to Europe' and other pro-European narratives; 3.4 The narratives of early Czech Euroscepticism; 3.5 A conceptual map of early Czech political debate about the EU; 4. Euroscepticism among the Czech public.
  • 4.1 Motivations for public Euroscepticism4.2 Data, operationalisation and method; 4.3 Analysis; 4.4 Development of the Czech public Euroscepticism; 5. Political parties; 5.1 Czech Eurosceptic political parties; 5.2 The Europeanisation of Eurosceptic party-political programmes; 5.3 Positions on European integration; 5.4 The Civic Democratic Party
  • national interests in liberal-economic attire; 5.5 The Free Citizens Party
  • a rejection of European integration; 5.6 Cooperation at the supranational level; 5.7 Europeanized Eurosceptic Parties; 5.8 Appendix: Categories of the coding schema.
  • 6. Czech Eurosceptic intellectuals6.1 Czech public intellectuals in the debate about European integration; 6.2 Václav Klaus as the intellectual focus of Czech Euroscepticism; 6.2.1 A pragmatic, soft Eurosceptic: Václav Klaus in the 1990s; 6.2.2 A Union less and less desired: Václav Klaus from the turn of the millennium to the adoption of the Lisbon Treaty; 6.2.3 On the way to hard Euroscepticism: Václav Klaus since 2009; 6.3 Petr Mach, or the gradual emancipation of Klaus's apprentice; 6.4 Miloslav Bednář: from the philosophy of politics to the politics of Euroscepticism.
  • 6.5 Petr Fiala, the sceptical European6.6 Alexander Tomský: Euroscepticism as a product of cultural conservatism; 6.7 Michal Semín and Citizen Initiative D.O.S.T.: Euroscepticism as a product of Christian conservatism; 6.8 Miloslav Ransdorf: in the name of communist internationalism; 6.9 Czech intellectual Euroscepticism (largely) under the sign of Europeanisation; 7. Czech Euroscepticism in the Council of the EU; 7.1 The Czech Republic and its conduct in the EU; 7.2 Data and analytical procedure; 7.3 Analysis; 7.3.1 Working groups in the Council of the EU.