Political Communication and European Parliamentary Elections in Times of Crisis: Perspectives from Central and South-Eastern Europe

✍ Scribed by Ruxandra Boicu, Silvia Branea, Adriana Stefanel (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 298
• Series: Political Campaigning and Communication
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book tackles the 2014 European Parliamentary election as an event, phenomenon and process from an interdisciplinary but coherent perspective. This edited volume includes research by prestigious academics from the former communist countries in question, all of which have only recently become EU members. The contributors consider whether there is a crisis of Euroscepticism, or, for that matter, extremism of any kind in each country discussed. In doing so, the volume seeks to analyse the future of the European Union itself. It will appeal to scholars and graduate students interested in elections and voting behaviour, comparative European politics, and political communication.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Introduction: Proposal of a Framework for the 2014 European Parliament Elections and Campaigns in Central and Eastern Europe....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Political Advertising During the 2014 Polish EU Parliamentary Election Campaign....Pages 13-28
Media Rhetoric and Virtual Communication in Bulgaria....Pages 29-41
Intermedia Agenda-Setting During the European Parliament Elections in Poland....Pages 43-56
An Overshadowed Campaign in Two Croatian Dailies....Pages 57-68
Perspectives on the Romanian Electoral Context and Media Coverage of Campaign Discourses....Pages 69-80
Coverage of the 2014 European Parliamentary Electoral Campaign in Romania’s Print Press (A Case Study)....Pages 81-94
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
A Second-Order Campaign in Lithuania?....Pages 97-114
Content Emptiness, Low Media Coverage, Exhausted Parties and Indifferent Voters: An Invisible 2014 European Parliamentary Election Campaign in the Czech Republic....Pages 115-132
Outline of Female Candidates in Romania’s EP Elections....Pages 133-147
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
The EU Agenda as an Emerging Cleavage of Political Competition? Parties and Their Voters in Slovakia....Pages 151-165
European and National Agendas in the 2014 EP Elections in Hungary....Pages 167-183
European Parliament Elections in the Czech Republic: Reflection of Citizens’ Agenda....Pages 185-199
Looking Behind the Scene of the Panel Discussion Organized by the Czech Independent Think-Tanks Before the European Parliament Elections of 2014....Pages 201-211
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
What’s the Right Kick-Off to a Good Finish? Polish Political Parties and Their Strategies in the 2014 European Parliament Elections....Pages 215-228
Results of the European Parliament Elections in Poland....Pages 229-242
Patterns of Recruitment of Polish Candidates in the 2014 European Parliament Elections....Pages 243-253
Election Results, Candidate Lists and the Framing of Campaigns....Pages 255-267
Eurosceptic Parties in the Czech Republic’s 2014 European Parliamentary Elections....Pages 269-281
Conclusions: Features of the 2014 European Elections in Central and Eastern Europe....Pages 283-285
Back Matter....Pages 287-291

✦ Subjects

Democracy;Political Communication;European Union Politics;Electoral Politics