A breaking-up of a pro-European consensus: Attitudes of Czech political parties towards the European integration (1998–2010)

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Authors	HAVLÍK Vlastimil
Year of publication	2011
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Communist and Post-Communist Studies
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Social Studies
Citation
Web	https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967067X11000195
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2011.04.003
Field	Political sciences
Keywords	political; Czech Republic; European integration; attitudes; Euroscepticism
Description	This article represents a contribution to the debate over the attitudes of political parties to the European integration-one of the hot topics in contemporary political science. It explores the dynamics of attitudes of political parties in the Czech Republic to the EU and analyzes them in the context of parties primary ideologies. On the basis of the results of an expert survey the author interpretes the changes in the major features of “European” debate in the Czech Republic and offers a new classification schema of attitudes of political parties towards the EU, according to the preferences of economic and/or political dimension of European integration.
Related projects:	Political Parties and The Representation of Interests in Contemporary European Democracies