Table Of ContentThe European Parliament
Election of 2019 in
East-Central Europe
Second-Order Euroscepticism
Edited by
Vít Hloušek · Petr Kaniok
The European Parliament Election of 2019
in East- Central Europe
Vít Hloušek • Petr Kaniok
Editors
The European
Parliament Election of
2019 in East-Central
Europe
Second-Order Euroscepticism
Editors
Vít Hloušek Petr Kaniok
Department of International Relations Department of International Relations
and European Studies and European Studies
Masaryk University Masaryk University
Brno, Czech Republic Brno, Czech Republic
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1 Theorising East-Central European Euroscepticism in the
Light of the European Parliament Elections 1
Vít Hloušek and Petr Kaniok
2 Republic of Bulgaria 17
Dragomir Stoyanov and Plamen Ralchev
3 Croatia 39
Goran Čular and Marijana Grbeša
4 Czech Republic 61
Vít Hloušek and Petr Kaniok
5 Estonia 83
Piret Ehin, Tõnis Saarts, and Mari-Liis Jakobson
6 Hungary 107
Krisztina Arató
7 Latvia 131
Daunis Auers
8 Lithuania 151
Liutauras Gudžinskas and Tomas Bekišas
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9 Poland 175
Aleks Szczerbiak
10 Romania 201
Sorina Soare and Claudiu D. Tufiș
11 Slovakia 229
Marek Rybář
12 Slovenia 253
Alenka Krašovec and Damjan Lajh
13 Euroscepticism, Parties, Voters and Politicisation in the
2019 Campaigns for the European Parliament Elections
in Central and Eastern Europe 277
Vít Hloušek and Petr Kaniok
Index 293
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Krisztina Arató is Professor of Political Science at Eötvös Loránd
University Faculty of Law, Institute of Political Science in Budapest,
Hungary. She is the President of the Hungarian Political Science
Association. Her research focuses on the history of European integration,
East-Central Europe in the EU and civil society. She has published with
Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan among others.
Daunis Auers (Phd, London) is Associate Professor of Comparative
Politics at the University of Latvia. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the
University of California-Berkeley (2005–2006) and a Baltic-American
Freedom Foundation Scholar at Wayne State University in Detroit (2014).
He has published widely on political parties, elections and referendums as
well as populism and the radical right in Baltic and European politics. His
most recent book—The Comparative Government and Politics of the Baltic
States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the 21st Century—was published
by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015.
Tomas Bekišas is an attaché at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the
Republic of Lithuania and alumnus of the Institute of International
Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University. He is primarily inter-
ested in public opinion on the European Union (EU), EU decision-
making, EU policies and their effect on the EU member states, including
their party systems.
Goran Cˇular is an associate professor at the Faculty of Political Science,
University of Zagreb, Croatia. His research interests include political par-
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ties, party systems, electoral behaviour and democratic consolidation. His
most recent book chapters include “Organizational structures of political
parties in Croatia” (2016), co-authored with Dario Nikić Čakar, “Stability
and permissiveness: Party regulation and party competition in Croatia”
(2018) and “Institutionalisation of a charismatic movement party: The
case of Croatian Democratic Union” (2019), co-authored with Dario
Nikić Čakar.
Piret Ehin is a senior researcher at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political
Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia. Her main research interests include
democracy, legitimacy and political support, European integration
and international relations in the Baltic Sea region. Her work has
appeared in the European Journal of Political Research, Journal of
Common Market Studies, Cooperation and Conflict, Journal of Elections,
Public Opinion and Parties and the Journal of Baltic Studies.
Marijana Grbeša is an associate professor at the Faculty of Political
Science, University of Zagreb. She teaches courses in media, political mar-
keting and strategic communication in politics. She regularly presents at
the biggest international conferences in political science, media and com-
munications. She has published with Routledge, Palgrave and Lexington
Books, among others. Her articles appeared in a number of interna-
tional peer-reviewed journals. She is a recipient of several academic
and professional grants and awards.
Liutauras Gudžinskas is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at
Vilnius University, Lithuania, also editor-in-chief of the Baltic Journal of
Political Science. In his research, he mainly focuses on the post-communist
transformation and Europeanization in East-Central European countries.
Among various contributions, more recently, he edited a monograph
on confidence in state institutions in Lithuania.
Vít Hloušek is Professor of European Politics at Masaryk University in
Brno, Czech Republic. His research focuses on contemporary European
political history, political and party systems of European countries
and Europeanization. He has published with Routledge, Edward
Elgar Publishing and Palgrave Macmillan among others. His articles
appeared in Europe-Asia Studies, East European Politics and Societies and
Perspectives on European Politics and Society.
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Mari-Liis Jakobson is Associate Professor of Political Sociology at
Tallinn University, Estonia. Her research focuses on transnational politics
and migration, populism and political discourse. She has published with
Routledge, Springer and Palgrave Macmillan among others. Her
articles have appeared in Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Social Science
Education and Acta Politica Estica.
Petr Kaniok works as an associate professor at the Faculty of Social
Science, Masaryk University, Czechia. His current research focuses on
Visegrad cooperation within the EU, Euroscepticism and impact of
Brexit on EU member states. His most recent work has been pub-
lished by East European Politics, Parliamentary Affairs and European
Politics and Society.
Alenka Krašovec is Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Social
Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her research focuses on politi-
cal institutions and processes. Her articles have appeared in edited books
published by prominent international publishing houses (Oxford
University Press, Cambridge University Press, Palgrave Macmillan,
Routledge) and her articles have appeared in different journals, for
example West European Politics, Problems of Post-Communism, Communist
and Post-Communist Studies.
Damjan Lajh is Associate Professor of Policy Analysis and Jean Monnet
Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana,
Slovenia. His research interests encompass public policies and policymak-
ing processes in the national and EU context, Europeanization processes,
interest groups and lobbying, and new forms of governance in the
EU. His articles have been, among others, published in West European
Politics, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Journal of
Southeast European & Black Sea Studies and Journal of Contemporary
European Research.
Plamen Ralchev is Associate Professor and Head of Department of
International Relations at the University of National and World Economy
in Sofia. His research interests focus on foreign policy, European politics
and security, identity politics, public diplomacy and strategic communica-
tions. He is an author of books on international communications of
the EU, external relations of the EU, and British foreign policy. He
has published in Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies and
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in edited volumes on problems of East European transition politics,
democratization, democracy audit, and minority politics, EU and
NATO enlargement.
Marek Rybář is an associate professor at the Department of Political
Science of Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University (Brno, the
Czech Republic). His research focuses on political parties, party competi-
tion and political institutions in Central and Eastern Europe. He has
published numerous chapters in edited volumes and studies in vari-
ous journals, including East European Politics and Societies, Communist
and Post-Communist Studies, Regional and Federal Studies, and Electoral
Studies. He is working on a research project examining patterns of
ministerial recruitment in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
Tõnis Saarts is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at Tallinn
University. His research interests include political parties, party systems,
electoral cleavages and comparative politics of Central and Eastern Europe.
He has recently published in European Societies, East European Politics and
Studies of Transition States and Societies.
Sorina Soare is Lecturer of Comparative Politics (University of Florence).
She works in the area of comparative politics and her research interests
include political parties, the concept of populism and the democrati-
zation process. Among her most recent publications: Gherghina S.,
Iancu A., & Soare, S., (eds.) (2018), Party Members and Their
Importance in Non-EU Countries. A Comparative Analysis, Routledge
and Gherghina, S: and Soare, S. (2019). Electoral performance
beyond leaders? The organization of populist parties in postcommu-
nist Europe. Party Politics (Online First).
Dragomir Stoyanov is a PhD researcher at the University of Sussex. His
research interests are in political parties, elections, Europeanization and
democratization, with a special emphasis on Eastern and Central European
politics. His current research project is on Euroscepticism and democratic
backsliding in Eastern Europe. Some of his work has appeared in
Problems of Post-Communism, East European Politics, East European
Quarterly, as well as chapters in volumes published by Palgrave
Macmillan and Lexington.
Aleks Szczerbiak is Professor of Politics and Contemporary European
Studies at the University of Sussex. He is author of Poles Together? The
