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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782010603321

Titolo

Opposing Europe? [[electronic resource] ] : the comparative party politics of Euroscepticism . Volume 2 Comparative and theoretical perspectives / / edited by Aleks Szczerbiak and Paul Taggart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-383-04000-1

1-281-92544-6

9786611925444

0-19-153164-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SzczerbiakAleks

TaggartPaul A

Disciplina

341.2422

Soggetti

Political parties - European Union countries

Political campaigns - European Union countries

European Union countries Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references ([p.263]-280) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""Contributors""; ""1. Introduction: Researching Euroscepticism in European Party Systems: A Comparative and Theoretical Research Agenda""; ""2. The Political Opportunity Structure of Euroscepticism: Institutional Setting and Political Agency in European Polities""; ""3. Protectionism, Populism, or Participation? Agrarian Parties and the European Question in Western and East Central Europe""; ""4. European Party Cooperation and Post-Communist Politics: Euroscepticism in Transnational Perspective""

""5. Exceptionalism or Convergence? Euroscepticism and Party Systems in Central and Eastern Europe""""6. Explaining the Failure of Euroscepticism in the European Parliament""; ""7. Euroscepticism in Parliament: A Comparative Analysis of the European and National Parliaments""; ""8. How Deep Is the Wider Europe? Elites, Europeanization, and Euroscepticism in the CEECs""; ""9. There is Not Much Eurosceptic Non-Voting in European Parliament Elections""; ""10. Theorizing Party-Based Euroscepticism: Problems of Definition,



Measurement, and Causality""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""

""C""""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Sommario/riassunto

This ground-breaking, state-of-the-art book provides the first comprehensive review of Euroscepticism in contemporary European politics. Leading scholars address the strength and breadth of Euroscepticism across a range of EU member and candidate states, and draw out comparative lessons on the nature of political parties, party systems, and the domestic politics of European integration. - ;The project of European integration now spans Europe, but in becoming bigger and broader the European Union has brought on itself significant criticism. As the EU becomes deeper, wider, and more ambitious, s