EU Enlargement and ReferendumsAleks Szczerbiak, Paul A. Taggart 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. |
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accession negotiations accession process accession referendum anti-EU April arguments attitudes balance of campaign Baltic campaign resources causal model cent citizens Civic Democrats civic engagement Communist consensus constitutional credibility Czech Republic economic electoral participation elite cues Estonia EUKK Eurobarometer Europe European Commission European integration European issue European preferences European referendums European Union Eurosceptic Euroscepticism explaining factors favour FIDESZ Gazeta Wyborcza held high level Hungarian Hungary Hungary's HZDS impact important June KSČM Latvia level of contestation Lidové noviny Lithuania low levels low turnout majority Malta Maltese March membership mobilisation national elections NATO opinion polls opposition organisations parliament parliamentary elections Poland Polish political elites post-communist President pro-accession pro-EU public opinion Radio Prague referendum campaign referendum outcome referendum result referendum turnout Russian Rzeczpospolita Sándor significant Slovak Slovakia Slovenian National Slovenian National Party social suggested Szczerbiak treaty turnout requirement variable vote Yes voters Yes camp Yes campaign Yes vote
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