EU Enlargement and Referendums

Informationen zum Autor Aleks Szczerbiak is Senior Lecturer in contemporary European studies and Paul Taggart is Senior Lecturer in Politics, both at the Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex, UK. Klappentext A series of EU accession referendums were held in nine candidate countries, eight post-communist states and Malta, between March and September 2003. These referendums provide us with an excellent comparative opportunity to deepen our understanding of the European integration issue and how it interacts with domestic politics, and of the dynamics of referendums in general and referendums on the European issue in particular. This book therefore provides a set of focused comparisons between these different cases. Each of the individual chapters provides an authoritative analysis of the referendum campaign and outcome in each of the countries concerned by a leading specialist on the politics of that country. This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal West European Politics. Zusammenfassung This book - previously published as a special issue of the journal West European Politics - analyzes the EU accession referendums that took place in eight countries in 2003. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction - Choosing Europe: The June 2003 EU accession referendums 2. Culture, Institutions and Campaign Effects: Explaining the outcome of Malta's EU accession referendum 3. The Slovenian EU Accession Referendum: A cat-and-mouse game 4. Hungary: Unpicking the permissive consensus 5. EU Accession and the New Slovak Consensus 6. History Trumps Government Unpopularity: The June 2003 Polish EU accession referendum 7. A Nation of Sceptics?: The Czech EU accession referendum of 13-14 June 2003 8. Clinching the 'Return to Europe': The referenda on EU accession in Estonia and Latvia 9. Conclusion: Towards a model of (European) referendums

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• Authors: Aleks Secerbiak, Paul Taggart
• Assisted by: Aleks Szcerbiak (Editor), Szcerbiak Aleks (Editor), Aleks Szczerbiak (Editor), Paul Taggart (Editor), Taggart Paul (Editor)
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2005
• EAN: 9780415360074
• ISBN: 978-0-415-36007-4
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 224 mm x 17 mm
• Series: West European Politics
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; LAW / International, LAW / Air & Space, Elections & referenda, Elections and referenda / suffrage, International space & aerospace law, International law, transport: space and aerospace law