Strange Bedfellows : A Hyper-pragmatic Alliance between
European Liberals and an Illiberal Czech Technocrat

J 2022

Strange Bedfellows : A Hyper-pragmatic Alliance between European Liberals and an Illiberal Czech Technocrat

HLOUŠEK, Vít a Lubomír KOPEČEK

Základní údaje

Originální název

Strange Bedfellows : A Hyper-pragmatic Alliance between European Liberals and an Illiberal Czech Technocrat

Autoři

HLOUŠEK, Vít (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí) a Lubomír KOPEČEK (203 Česká republika, domácí)

Vydání

East European Politics and Societies and Cultures, Thousand Oaks, SAGE Publications, 2022, 0888-3254

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50601 Political science

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 0.700

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14230/22:00118765

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0888325420953487

UT WoS

000572750100001

Klíčová slova anglicky

Andrej Babiš; the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE); ideology; Europarties; Czech Republic

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 31. 1. 2022 23:09, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Anotace

ORIG CZ

V originále

The article deals with the membership of the most important Czech political party, ANO (meaning “yes” in Czech), led by Andrej Babiš, in the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE). Our goals are to reconstruct how Babiš’s party joined ALDE and to discuss the ideological differences between ANO and ALDE. The paper shows that ALDE’s offer of membership in 2014 was motivated by a pragmatic need to bolster its own position in the European Parliament; ANO, meanwhile, needed to anchor itself in European politics. Andrej Babiš’s technocratic and illiberal view was not apparent at the beginning, but more importantly, this did not matter to ALDE. ALDE’s Czech “point of contact,” ANO’s foreign policy expert and the leader of its party group in the European Parliament, Pavel Telička, made ANO’s membership credible. However, as a Euro-optimist, Telička was not compatible with ANO’s flexible ideological character in the long term and the party group split up. A comparison of the parties’ European Parliament election manifestos and positions on crucial controversial European issues clearly reveals a deep division between ALDE and ANO and their fundamentally opposed ideological positions. We describe the findings as a new hyper-pragmatic trend in the creation of Europarties, which weakens their ideological cohesion.

Česky

Článek se věnuje členství ANO Andreje Babiše v Alianci liberálů a demokratů pro Evropu (ALDE). Cíli článku je rekonstruovat cestu ANO do ALDE a debatovat ideologické rozdíly mezi ANO a ALDE. Text ukazuje hluboký rozdíl mezi ALDE a ANO a fundamentální neslučitelnost jejich ideologických pozic, což dokládá hyperpragmatický trend v podobě Eurostran.

Návaznosti

GA17-02226S, projekt VaV

Název: Političtí podnikatelé: Česká republika v komparativní perspektivě

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Političtí podnikatelé: Česká republika v komparativní perspektivě

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HLOUŠEK, Vít a Lubomír KOPEČEK. Strange Bedfellows : A Hyper-pragmatic Alliance between European Liberals and an Illiberal Czech Technocrat. East European Politics and Societies and Cultures. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2022, roč. 36, č. 1, s. 29-50. ISSN 0888-3254. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0888325420953487.

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HLOUŠEK, Vít a Lubomír KOPEČEK. Strange Bedfellows : A Hyper-pragmatic Alliance between European Liberals and an Illiberal Czech Technocrat. \textit{East European Politics and Societies and Cultures}. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2022, roč.~36, č.~1, s.~29-50. ISSN~0888-3254. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0888325420953487.

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