| dc.contributor.author | BRESSANELLI, Edoardo | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-02T14:46:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-10-02T14:46:59Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/32940 | |
| dc.description.abstract | On the one hand, the EU enlargement of 2004/7 brought into the EU 12 new member states ten of which are post-communist countries. On the other, the Lisbon Treaty signed in 2007 states that the 'Union shall be founded on representative democracy' and its political parties contribute 'to express the will of the citizens'. Is representative (party) democracy possible in the enlarged and more diverse Union? What are the constraints and opportunities for its political parties? This study provides a systematic assessment of the impact of enlargement on political parties at the EU level. Theoretically, it builds on the literature on partisan formation and development to frame the consequences of the Union's widening. Empirically, it undertakes an extensive analysis combining qualitative and quantitative methodologies. | en |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | Introduction; PART I - Context and theory; 1. EU democracy and Europarty institutionalization; 2. Framing the impact of enlargement; PART II - Empirical analysis; 3. Widening and Deepening the Political Groups; 4. Europarty ideology: data and measurement; 5. Ideological cohesion and differences after enlargement; 6. Ideology and pragmatism in the West and in the East; 7. From preferences to behaviour: voting cohesion in the EP; 8. Left-right confrontation or grand-coalition?; Conclusions : Europarties' prospects beyond the 2014 elections | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Palgrave Macmillan | en |
| dc.relation.isversionof | http://hdl.handle.net/1814/21356 | |
| dc.title | Europarties after enlargement : organization, ideology and competition | en |
| dc.type | Book | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1057/9781137348869 | |
| eui.subscribe.skip | true | |
| dc.description.version | Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2012 | en |
