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@article{1682041, author = {Hloušek, Vít and Kopeček, Lubomír}, article_location = {Thousand Oaks}, article_number = {1}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0888325420953487}, keywords = {Andrej Babiš; the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE); ideology; Europarties; Czech Republic}, language = {eng}, issn = {0888-3254}, journal = {East European Politics and Societies and Cultures}, title = {Strange Bedfellows : A Hyper-pragmatic Alliance between European Liberals and an Illiberal Czech Technocrat}, url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0888325420953487}, volume = {36}, year = {2022} }
TY - JOUR ID - 1682041 AU - Hloušek, Vít - Kopeček, Lubomír PY - 2022 TI - Strange Bedfellows : A Hyper-pragmatic Alliance between European Liberals and an Illiberal Czech Technocrat JF - East European Politics and Societies and Cultures VL - 36 IS - 1 SP - 29-50 EP - 29-50 PB - SAGE Publications SN - 08883254 KW - Andrej Babiš KW - the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) KW - ideology KW - Europarties KW - Czech Republic UR - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0888325420953487 L2 - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0888325420953487 N2 - 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. ER -
HLOUŠEK, Vít and 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, vol.~36, No~1, p.~29-50. ISSN~0888-3254. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0888325420953487.
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