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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820779103321

Autore

Almeida Dimitri <1981->

Titolo

The impact of European integration on political parties : beyond the permissive consensus / / Dimitri Almeida

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2012

ISBN

1-280-66206-9

9786613638991

0-203-12362-X

1-136-34040-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in European politics ; ; 84

Disciplina

324.2094

Soggetti

European federation

Political parties - 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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; The Impact of European Integration on Political Parties; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: political parties and the politicisation of Europe; 1. Approaches to the study of party responses to European integration; 2. An acquired taste for Europe: social democratic parties and European integration; 3. Between reluctant Europeanism and hard Euroscepticism: radical left parties and European integration; 4. Separate ways: liberal parties and European integration

5. Diluted Europeanism: Christian democratic parties and European integration6. Europeanised Eurosceptics? Radical right parties and European integration; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book traces the positions of national partisan actors towards the development of the European polity in an in-depth comparative analysis covering all member states of the European Union over a period of 60 years. The author examines the approach of the social democratic, radical left, liberal, Christian democratic and radical right party families, eliciting a comprehensive analysis of partisan positions on European integration.Demonstrating that attitudes and



programmatic changes towards European integration must be understood both as the product of long-term ideological