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PALGRAVE STUDIES IN EUROPEAN UNION POLITICS SERIES EDITORS: MICHELLE EGAN · NEILL NUGENT · WILLIAM E. PATERSON Illiberal Trends and Anti-EU Politics in East Central Europe Edited by Astrid Lorenz · Lisa H. Anders Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics Series Editors Michelle Egan American University Washington, USA Neill Nugent Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester, UK William E. Paterson Aston University Birmingham, UK Following on the sustained success of the acclaimed European Union Series, which essentially publishes research-based textbooks, Palgrave StudiesinEuropeanUnionPoliticspublishescuttingedgeresearch-driven monographs. The remit of the series is broadly defined, both in terms of subject and academic discipline. All topics of significance concerning the nature and operation of the European Union potentially fall within the scope of the series. The series is multidisciplinary to reflect the growing importance of the EU as a political, economic and social phenomenon. To submit a proposal, please contact Senior Editor Ambra Finotello ambra.fi[email protected]. Editorial Board Laurie Buonanno (SUNY Buffalo State, USA) Kenneth Dyson (Cardiff University, UK) Brigid Laffan (European University Institute, Italy) Claudio Radaelli (University College London, UK) Mark Rhinard (Stockholm University, Sweden) Ariadna Ripoll Servent (University of Bamberg, Germany) Frank Schimmelfennig (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Claudia Sternberg (University College London, UK) Nathalie Tocci (Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy) More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14629 · Astrid Lorenz Lisa H. Anders Editors Illiberal Trends and Anti-EU Politics in East Central Europe Editors Astrid Lorenz Lisa H. 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Cover illustration: © Magic Lens/Shutterstock This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland Acknowledgements The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of Erasmus+ ProgrammeoftheEuropeanUnion.TheEuropeanCommissionsupport for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorse- mentofthecontentswhichreflectstheviewsonlyoftheauthors,andthe Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. v Contents 1 Examining Illiberal Trends and Anti-EU Politics in East Central Europe from a Domestic Perspective: State of Research and Outline of the Book 1 Lisa H. Anders and Astrid Lorenz Part I Societal Roots of the Illiberal Trends and Anti-EU Politics 2 Illiberal and Anti-EU Politics in the Name of the People? Euroscepticism in East Central Europe 2004–2019 in Comparative Perspective 29 Lars Vogel 3 The Varying Challenge of Islamophobia for the EU: On Anti-Muslim Resentments and Its Dividend for Right-Wing Populists and Eurosceptics—Central and Eastern Europe in a Comparative Perspective 57 Gert Pickel and Cemal Öztürk vii viii CONTENTS 4 Is There an East–West Divide over European Solidarity? Comparing European Citizens’ Attitudes Towards Cross-Border Solidarity 2016 81 Florian K. Kley and Holger Lengfeld Part II Rhetoric and Practice of Illiberal and Anti-EU Politics 5 Differential Illiberalism: Classifying Illiberal Trends in Central European Party Politics 111 Vratislav Havlík and Vít Hloušek 6 Party Rhetoric and Action Compared: Examining Politicisation and Compliance in the Field of Asylum and Migration Policy in the Czech Republic and Hungary 137 Paula Beger 7 Pro-Europeans and ‘Euro-Realists’: The Party-Voters Linkage and Parties’ Political Agendas in Poland, 2004–2019 157 Michał Dulak 8 Same Same, but Different: Domestic Conditions of Illiberal Backlash Against Universal Rights in the Czech Republic and Slovakia 179 Petra Guasti Part III EU Reactions to Illiberal and Anti-EU Politics 9 TalkingPastEachOther:OnCommonMisperceptions in the Rule of Law Debate 209 Attila Vincze CONTENTS ix 10 Does It Help to Call a Spade a Spade? Examining the Legal Bases and Effects of Rule of Law-Related Infringement Procedures Against Hungary 235 Lisa H. Anders and Sonja Priebus 11 SafeguardingDemocracyandtheRuleofLawbyCivil Society Actors? The Case of Poland 263 Claudia-Y. Matthes Part IV Theoretical Reflections and Conclusions 12 Contesting the EU, Contesting Democracy and Rule of Law in Europe. Conceptual Suggestions for Future Research 285 Luca Tomini and Seda Gürkan 13 Towards a Political Theory of Democratic Backsliding? Generalising the East Central European Experience 301 Ireneusz Paweł Karolewski 14 Illiberal Trends and Anti-EU Politics in East Central Europe: Major Findings and Avenues for Future Research 323 Astrid Lorenz and Lisa H. Anders Index 349 List of Contributors Lisa H. Anders Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany Paula Beger Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany Michał Dulak Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland Petra Guasti Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Seda Gürkan Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium Vratislav Havlík Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic Vít Hloušek Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic Ireneusz Paweł Karolewski Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany Florian K. Kley Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany Holger Lengfeld Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany Astrid Lorenz Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany Claudia-Y. Matthes Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany Cemal Öztürk University Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany Gert Pickel Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany Sonja Priebus Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany xi
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