Loading...
Title: Euroscepticism, Europhobia and Eurocriticism

Euroscepticism, Europhobia and Eurocriticism

The Radical Parties of the Right and Left "vis-à-vis" the European Union

by Cesareo Rodriguez-Aguilera de Prat (Author)
©2013 Monographs 158 Pages
History & Political Science
Open Access
Series: Euroclio, Volume 75

Summary

Euroscepticism has become a generic catch-all term that is not always useful to capture the nuances of the different types of political opposition to the current process of European integration. This research analyses the electoral manifestos and programmes presented to the European Parliamentary elections in 2009 by twenty-two parties. In this regard, it is clear that the radical right parties usually have Europhobic impulses – their rejection being not only of methods, but also of principals. In contrast, the radical left parties are, in theory, favourable to European integration, but dispute the direction imposed by the EU authorities.

Details

Pages
158
Year
2013
ISBN (PDF)
9783035263473
ISBN (Softcover)
9782875740410
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0352-6347-3
Open Access
CC-BY-NC-ND
Language
English
Publication date
2013 (November)
Keywords
Radical Parties European Union anti-eu
Published
Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2013. 158 pp., 23 tables

Biographical notes

Cesareo Rodriguez-Aguilera de Prat (Author)

Cesáreo Rodríguez-Aguilera de Prat is Professor of Political Science at the University of Barcelona. He is a Doctor of Law and holds a degree in Contemporary History. His principal research interests are in comparative politics and, more specifically, European comparative politics. Within this field, his main focus is political parties. He has published numerous books and articles on these subjects and has worked as a visiting researcher in research centres and universities in Rome, Turin, Milan, Florence, Paris, Lyon, London, Edinburgh, Brussels and Mannheim.

Previous

Title: Euroscepticism, Europhobia and Eurocriticism