EU Enlargement and Referendums

Aleks Szczerbiak, Paul Taggart, Aleks Szcerbiak

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780415360074
• eBook ISBN: 9781317998907
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Comparative Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

INDEX

AD see Alternattiva Demokratika agricultural subsidies 3, 119

Alternattiva Demokratika (AD) (Malta) 29–30, 32, 39

attitudes see EU membership attitudes

awareness: Czech Republic 202; EU issues 12; Hungary 200; Malta 36, 197; Slovenia 52–3, 198–9

Baltic states 160–92; ethnic minority 160, 166, 185–8; EU membership support 161, 162; political elite consensus 163–8, 188; public attitudes 168–72; sovereignty 164–6; see also Estonia; Latvia

binding referendums 51, 71, 173

campaigns: Baltic states 175–82; Czech Civic Democrats 145–6; Czech communists 147–8; Czech EU referendum 142–50, 153–5; Estonian EU referendum 180–2; Hungarian EU referendum 85–90; Malta EU referendum 31–6, 42; Polish EU referendum 120–7, 130–1; President Klaus 147; Slovakian EU referendum 105–8; Slovenian EU referendum 52–8; see also ‘No’ campaigns; resources; ‘Yes’ campaigns

Catholic Church: Czech ‘Yes’ campaign 144–5; Polish ‘Yes’

campaign 122, 124–5; Slovakia 108

causal models 10–25, 193–221; evaluation 210–16; generalisability 216–17; key variables 219; prediction 218–20; result 10, 11–17, 139; result prediction 197–205; result, revised 213, 216; result variables 194–5, 211–13, 219; turnout 10, 17–24; turnout prediction 205–10; turnout, revised 215, 217; turnout variables 196, 213–15,219

Civic Democratic Party (ODS) (Czech Republic) 136–7, 140, 145–6

civic engagement 19–20, 112, 210, 214

cognitive mobilisation 21–2

Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSÈM) 147–8

Communist voters: Slovakia 10...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• The Politics of European Referendum Outcomes and Turnout: Two Models
• Culture, Institutions and Campaign Effects: Explaining the Outcome of Malta's EU Accession Referendum
• The Slovenian EU Accession Referendum: A Cat-and-Mouse Game
• Hungary: Unpicking the Permissive Consensus
• EU Accession and the New Slovak Consensus
• History Trumps Government Unpopularity: The June 2003 Polish EU Accession Referendum
• A Nation of Sceptics? The Czech EU Referendum of 13–14 June 2003
• Clinching the ‘Return to Europe’: The Referendums on EU Accession in Estonia and Latvia
• Conclusion: Towards a Model of (European) Referendums
• Index