Pub Date : 2014-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15705854.2014.960169
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Pub Date : 2014-09-01DOI: 10.1080/15705854.2014.945254
V. Havlík, Vít Hloušek
Abstract The 2010 parliamentary election resulted in the unprecedented electoral success of the Public Affairs, the first electorally successful exclusively populist political party in the history of the Czech Republic. The article examines the history, ideological profile and the internal organization of the party and concludes that the success of the party was facilitated by the growing dissatisfaction with the political situation. The VV result also indicates (together with the success of TOP 09 and the drop in electoral support for ODS) that the dynamics of the party system are changing, and that the right-wing/centre part of the political spectrum in the Czech Republic is undergoing restructuring. When assessing the organizational structure of the party, VV can be labelled as an excellent example of business-firm party.
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Pub Date : 2014-09-01DOI: 10.1080/15705854.2014.922352
Paula M. Baranowska
Abstract Calls for a referendum on UK's membership in the EU entered permanently into the political debate, and several surveys showed that many British citizens may like to leave the European community. This article examines the portrayal of the EU in the British press during the eurozone recession. It presents analysis of news sections in four newspapers: The Guardian, The Times, The Sun and The Daily Mail, which was conducted between November 2011 and July 2012. The research shows inaccuracies in the coverage of the eurozone crisis that lead to a very unfavourable portrayal of the EU as an artificial, undemocratic organisation dragging Britain and the world into financial problems.
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Pub Date : 2014-09-01DOI: 10.1080/15705854.2014.945274
A. Raimundo
Abstract As a former colonial power in Africa, Portugal has been a conspicuously neglected case in the contemporary academic literature on Europe–Africa relations. This article explores Portugal's role in European Union (EU) relations with Africa, focusing on the issue of political conditionality. The analysis considers how active Portugal has been at the EU level regarding that controversial issue and to what extent Lisbon has tried to mediate between its European partners and Africa. Taking into account the limited contributions on the topic, this article makes great use of primary sources and takes a long-term perspective. The findings show that Portugal's general stance was mainly reactive and cautious. However, Portuguese policy-makers ingeniously used intra-EU pressures towards conditionality to highlight Portugal's conciliatory position and buttress a bridging role between Europe and Africa. This study contributes to the literature on Portuguese foreign policy in the EU–Africa context and provides useful insights for other studies on smaller EU member states as well as Europe–Africa relations.
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Pub Date : 2014-09-01DOI: 10.1080/15705854.2014.940128
B. Radeljić
This book complements Habermas’s Europe: The Faltering Project (2009) in which he addressed a number of issues being of crucial relevance for the highly questionable future of the European Union. He focused on the decreasing involvement of intellectuals in debates regarding the future of Europe – a serious lack that can affect future policy-making, the presence of Islam (securitization, potential risks, greater inclusion and tolerance), the power of the Lisbon Treaty (which actually does not solve the European problems he identifies) and, lastly, the potential of the public sphere to get involved and contribute to official decisions. The Crisis of the European Union: A Response claims that Europe is now more than ever a constitutional project. Such a claim has to do with the challenges posed by the recent EU crisis that has clearly confirmed the existence of some alarming differences amongst the EU’s member states that will further erode solidarity. As Habermas puts it,
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Pub Date : 2014-09-01DOI: 10.1080/15705854.2014.945255
N. Vogiatzis
Abstract This contribution discusses three pivotal post-Lisbon challenges of EU constitutional law and EU policies vis-à-vis European citizens, using the Decision 1093/2012, which established the European Year of Citizens (EYC) 2013, as a case study or a starting point for further reflection. Because of its silence on these challenges, the Decision unravels them: the need to dissociate legitimacy in the EU from information campaigns and move towards the establishment of additional instruments that will augment democratic legitimacy; the need to reconceptualize the so-called market citizenship, moving beyond references to and reliance upon free-movement rights; and the need to adequately address and protect the rights of third-country nationals. The remainder of this article examines whether the new procedure for the election of the Commission President could turn 2014 a more promising EYC, and considers the provisions of Article 17.7 TEU in relation to the aforementioned threefold constitutional framework.
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Pub Date : 2014-09-01DOI: 10.1080/15705854.2014.881051
Y. Korgunyuk
Abstract This paper presents a detailed technique for identifying links between the electoral cleavages and political divides, on the one hand, and between the electoral cleavages and factors of social stratification, on the other. The described methodology is subsequently used for studying the political and social content of the electoral cleavages in post-Soviet Russia (1993–2011). Two ‘full’ long-term electoral cleavages are detected that can be interpreted both politically and socially: (1) ‘pro-market modernists versus anti-market traditionalists’; (2) ‘authorities versus community’. The first cleavage defined the political development of the country in the 1990s, the second determined it for the period after 2000. The first cleavage has strong correlation with left-right (socioeconomic) and ‘modernist–traditionalist’ political dimensions, the second with the ‘authoritarian-democratic’ division. Both cleavages are conditioned socially first of all by urban–rural differences or, what is the same, the economic successfulness of different territories. The ‘pro-market modernists versus anti-market traditionalists’ cleavage also has a strong connection to the level of sociocultural development of the territories, the ‘authorities versus community’ cleavage to their demographic characteristics (particularly, ethnic composition).
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Pub Date : 2014-09-01DOI: 10.1080/15705854.2014.881052
Ioannis N. Tzortzis
Abstract Democratic transitions are usually complex and uncertain processes, and specifying paths to democratisation is a tentative process. One of the controversial and less explored paths is that of regime self-transformation. An attempt is made in this paper to explain this kind of transition with the notion of regime dispensability, a situation in which the dictatorial regime is abandoned in favour of a non-dictatorial one, using two countries that experienced such regime-initiated democratic transitions, namely Spain and Turkey, in a comparative framework. Dispensability is linked to the nature of the dictatorial regime and is used as a tool to account for causes of, and regime groups that can bring about, the regime's transformation, as well as for the implications of self-transformation for the future democracies.
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Pub Date : 2014-09-01DOI: 10.1080/15705854.2014.940129
Constantinos Adamides
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Pub Date : 2014-09-01DOI: 10.1080/15705854.2014.900988
G. Tanil
Abstract This article seeks to explain the role of identity politics in defining national elites' perceptions of the European Union (EU) and their subsequent foreign-policy choices. It is argued that when analysing the foreign-policy choices of national elites, not only interests and preferences, but also identity questions must be taken into account. In any national context, ideas, identities and perceptions of self and the EU are expected to impact on subsequent policy choices about Europe. This article seeks to explain this impact by applying a combination of the fusion and social constructivist approaches.
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