Detailed Information on Publication Record
2022
Strange Bedfellows : A Hyper-pragmatic Alliance between European Liberals and an Illiberal Czech Technocrat
HLOUŠEK, Vít and Lubomír KOPEČEKBasic information
Original name
Strange Bedfellows : A Hyper-pragmatic Alliance between European Liberals and an Illiberal Czech Technocrat
Authors
HLOUŠEK, Vít (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Lubomír KOPEČEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)
Edition
East European Politics and Societies and Cultures, Thousand Oaks, SAGE Publications, 2022, 0888-3254
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Článek v odborném periodiku
Field of Study
50601 Political science
Country of publisher
United States of America
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
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Impact factor
Impact factor: 0.700
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14230/22:00118765
Organization unit
Faculty of Social Studies
UT WoS
000572750100001
Keywords in English
Andrej Babiš; the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE); ideology; Europarties; Czech Republic
Tags
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International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 31/1/2022 23:09, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová
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.
In Czech
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.
Links
| GA17-02226S, research and development project |
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