EU ENLARGEMENT AND REFERENDUMS
This book is a major contribution to both the theoretical and empirical literature on referendums, particularly in relation to European issues.
It compares a series of referendums held in nine candidate countries, eight post-communist states and Malta, between March and September 2003. In so doing we gain a deep understanding of the nature of European integration and how it interacts with domestic politics, while simultaneously providing an authoritative analysis of the referendum campaign and outcome in each of the countries concerned.
This in depth analysis provides the opportunity to test a variety of comparative propositions and the resulting models of referendum and turnout that result can be used to predict outcomes and turnout in other referendums.
This book is a special issue of the journal West European Politics.
First published 2005
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Michelle Cini is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Jean Monnet Lecturer in EU Studies in the Department of Politics at the University of Bristol. She has written, amongst other things, on the politics of the European Commission, EU competition policy and, more recently, EU-Malta relations, [michelle.cini@bristol.ac.uk]
Brigid Fowler is a Ph.D. candidate at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREES), European Research Institute, University of Birmingham, where her research concerns the impact of domestic political factors on the EU accession process, focusing on Hungary's 19982002 government. She has been a Research Fellow at CREES and published several articles and chapters on aspects of Hungarian politics and EU enlargement. [BVF032@bham.ac.uk]
Sen Hanley is Lecturer in East European Politics at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. He has published a number of articles on party politics and European integration in the Czech Republic and is currently working on a book dealing with the politics of the Czech right, [s.hanley@ssees.ac.uk]
Karen Henderson is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Leicester, where she has worked since 1990. Her recent research has specialised on EU eastern enlargement, most particularly the influence of domestic politics on the accession process, and she has also written books on post-communist politics and on Slovakia, including Slovakia: The Escape from Invisibility (2002) and Bach to Europe: Central and Eastern Europe and the European Union (1999). [khlO@leicester.ac.uk]
Alenka Kraovec is Assistant Professor and Chair of Policy Analysis and Public Administration at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is also a researcher at the Centre for Political Research at the same faculty. She specialises in political institutions and policy-making processes. Recent publications include Mocv politicnih strankah (The Power Within Political Parties 2000); Tarty and State in Democratic Slovenia', in P.G. Lewis (ed.), Party Development and Democratic Change in Post-Communist Europe: The First Decade (2001); Oblikovanje javnih politik: primer kulturnih politik (Policy-Making Processes in Cultural Policy Arena2002). [alenka.krasovec@fdv.uni-lj.si]
Damjan Lajh is a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and researcher at the Centre for Political Research at the same faculty. His research interests include the comparative analysis of democratic transition and constitutional choices in post-Yugoslav states, the Europeanisation of national political institutions, and implementation of the EU structural policy. Recent publications include Stability Pact: SloveniaNGOs (with D. Fink-Hafner, 2002); Managing Europe from Home: The Europeanisation of the Slovenian Core Executive (co-ed. D. Fink-Hafner, 2003); Analiza politik (Policy Analysis2002). [damjan.lajh@fdv.uni-lj.si]
Evald Mikkel is a Lecturer in the in the Department of Political Science, University of Tartu. His research interests include parties and electoral behaviour, post-communist transitions and consolidations and Northern European politics. He has previously published in the Journal of Baltic Studies. [Evald.Mikkel@ut.ee]
Geoffrey Pridham is Professor of European Politics at the University of Bristol. He has written widely on dmocratisation in Southern as well as Central and Eastern Europe, including The Dynamics of Democratization: A Comparative Approach (2000). In recent years, he has focused on the politics of EU enlargement with special reference to Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Latvia and Romaniathe outcome of which is Designing Democracy: EU Enlargement and Regime Change in Post-Communist Europe (2005). During 200407, he is holding an ESRC Fellowship for a programme of work on Europeanising Democratisation? EU Accession and Post-Communist Politics in Slovakia, Latvia and Romania. [g.pridham@bristol.ac.uk]
Aleks Szczerbiak is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary European Studies specialising in Central and East European Politics, especially Poland. His research interests include party and electoral politics, and the domestic politics of European integration, and he is co-convenor of the European Parties Elections and Referendums Network. He is author of Poles Together? The Emergence and Development of Political Parties in Post-communist Poland (2001), Centre Right Parties in East-Central Europe (with Sean Hanley, forthcoming, 2004) and Opposing Europe: The Comparative Party Politics of Euros cepticism in Contemporary Europe (with Paul Taggart, 2 vols., forthcoming, 2004). [a.a.szczerbiak@sussex.ac.uk]
Paul Taggart is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the Sussex European Institute. He is author of