The Impact of European Integration on Political Parties

This book traces the positions of national partisan actors towards the development of the European polity in an in-depth comparative analysis covering all member states of the European Union over a period of 60 years. The author examines the approach of the social democratic, radical left, liberal, Christian democratic and radical right party families, eliciting a comprehensive analysis of partisan positions on European integration.

Auteur

Dimitri Almeida is Lecturer in French political and area studies at the University of Göttingen, Germany.

Contenu

Introduction: Political Parties and the Politicization of Europe 1. Approaches to the Study of Party Responses to European Integration 2. An Acquired Taste for Europe: Social Democratic Parties and European Integration 3. Between Reluctant Europeanism and Hard Euroscepticism: Radical Left Parties and European Integration 4. Separate Ways: Liberal Parties and European Integration 5. Diluted Europeanism: Christian Democratic Parties and European Integration 6. Europeanized Eurosceptics? Radical Right Parties and European Integration 7. Conclusion