MEP Responses to Democratic Backsliding in Hungary and Poland. An Analysis of Agenda‐Setting and Voting Behaviour
| Autor: | Maurits J. Meijers, Harmen van der Veer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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021110 strategic
defence & security studies Economics and Econometrics Parliament media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Authoritarianism Europeanization of Policy and Law (EUROPAL) 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology General Business Management and Accounting Democracy 0506 political science Rule of law Politics Political science Voting Political economy Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration media_common.cataloged_instance Ideology Business and International Management European union Institute for Management Research media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Common Market Studies |
| ISSN: | 1468-5965 0021-9886 |
| Popis: | The governments of Hungary and Poland have been accused of sliding toward semi‐authoritarianism. Systematic analyses of the responses of political actors at the EU level to these instances of alleged democratic backsliding are scarce, however. This article therefore investigates the responses of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to the issue of the quality of democracy and the rule of law in Hungary and Poland. On the basis of data on parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions, we analyse who puts these issues on the European Parliament's (EP's) internal agenda and what positions legislators subsequently take in votes on resolutions. We find that both ideological preferences and strategic interests determine MEPs’ responses to democratic backsliding. Our findings are important for research on EU responses to democratic backsliding in EU member states as well as for the literature on party competition in the EP. |
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