Volby do Evropského parlamentu 2004 v Rakousku a rakouské politické strany

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Title in English	Elections to the European Parliament 2004 in Austria and Austrian Political Parties
Authors	HLOUŠEK Vít POLÁČKOVÁ Klára
Year of publication	2005
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Středoevropské politické studie
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Social Studies
Citation
Field	Political sciences
Keywords	Austria; European Parliament; Elections; Europeanization; Political Parties
Description	The article discusses the outcomes of elections to the European Parliament in Austria in June 2004. Attitudes of relevant Austrian parties towards the European integration project are briefly discussed and placed on the theoretical scale that ranges from Hard Euroscepticism and Identity Europeanism. The presented outcomes of the elections are put into the general context of the Austrian party system and voters preferences since the middle 1980s. Special attention is given to the phenomenon of Hans-Peter Martins populist list that won almost 14 % of the vote. Also, relatively low voter turnout is discussed. The Austrian example is very suitable for theorizing European elections as elections of less voters attention that is conceptualized at the end of the article.
Related projects:	Political Parties and The Representation of Interests in Contemporary European Democracies