Political Communication and European Parliamentary Elections in Times of Crisis

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Introduction: Proposal of a Framework for the 2014 European Parliament Elections and Campaigns in Central and Eastern Europe

   • Silvia Branea, Ruxandra Boicu

   Pages 1-9

3. Media Coverage and Political Marketing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Political Advertising During the 2014 Polish EU Parliamentary Election Campaign

      • Agnieszka Stępińska

      Pages 13-28

   3. Media Rhetoric and Virtual Communication in Bulgaria

      • Ivanka Mavrodieva

      Pages 29-41

   4. Intermedia Agenda-Setting During the European Parliament Elections in Poland

      • Bartlomiej Lodzki, Anna Paluch

      Pages 43-56

   5. An Overshadowed Campaign in Two Croatian Dailies

      • Gordana Vilović

      Pages 57-68

   6. Perspectives on the Romanian Electoral Context and Media Coverage of Campaign Discourses

      • Adriana Ștefănel

      Pages 69-80

   7. Coverage of the 2014 European Parliamentary Electoral Campaign in Romania’s Print Press (A Case Study)

      • Ruxandra Boicu

      Pages 81-94

4. A Second-Order Campaign

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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   2. A Second-Order Campaign in Lithuania?

      • Ingrida Unikaitė Jakuntavičienė

      Pages 97-114

   3. Content Emptiness, Low Media Coverage, Exhausted Parties and Indifferent Voters: An Invisible 2014 European Parliamentary Election Campaign in the Czech Republic

      • Jakub Charvát

      Pages 115-132

   4. Outline of Female Candidates in Romania’s EP Elections

      • Silvia Branea

      Pages 133-147

5. European vs. National Agenda

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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   2. The EU Agenda as an Emerging Cleavage of Political Competition? Parties and Their Voters in Slovakia

      • Olga Gyárfášová

      Pages 151-165

   3. European and National Agendas in the 2014 EP Elections in Hungary

      • Boglárka Koller

      Pages 167-183

   4. European Parliament Elections in the Czech Republic: Reflection of Citizens’ Agenda

      • Ilona Švihlíková

      Pages 185-199

   5. Looking Behind the Scene of the Panel Discussion Organized by the Czech Independent Think-Tanks Before the European Parliament Elections of 2014

      • Kryštof Kruliš

      Pages 201-211

6. Ideological Premises, Candidates‘ Recruitment, Vote Results

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213

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   2. What’s the Right Kick-Off to a Good Finish? Polish Political Parties and Their Strategies in the 2014 European Parliament Elections

      • Marzena Cichosz

      Pages 215-228

This book tackles the 2014 European Parliamentary election as an event, phenomenon and process from an interdisciplinary but coherent perspective. This edited volume includes research by prestigious academics from the former communist countries in question, all of which have only recently become EU members. The contributors consider whether there is a crisis of Euroscepticism, or, for that matter, extremism of any kind in each country discussed. In doing so, the volume seeks to analyse the future of the European Union itself. It will appeal to scholars and graduate students interested in elections and voting behaviour, comparative European politics, and political communication.    

• electoral campaign
• European agenda
• national agenda
• political advertising
• second order elections
• media coverage
• European union
• 2014 European Parliamentary electon
• European parliament
• Eurosceptism
• crisis
• democracy
• elections
• Europe
• European Parliament
• parliament
• political science
• politics
• european union politics

“This collection of essays offers unique snapshots of national contests within nations facing challenges for the embedding of democracy. … The rich coverage and insightful data within the essays raise particularly important questions for consideration for the study of the future of democracy in Europe. Hence this work represents a must read for scholars and practitioners in this important field of human endeavour and the book a timely and welcome contribution to the Palgrave Political Communication and Campaigning series.” (Darren G. Lilleker, Medijske Studije, Vol. 7 (14), 2016)

“This book is a valuable cross-national investigation of the media’s agenda-setting role, of voters’ social identities, and of the political party systems in the countries examined (Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary).” (Professor Daniela Rovența-Frumușani, University of Bucharest, Romania)

“The focus on the political campaigns, media coverage, national versus European perspectives, and the vote, makes this volume a very comprehensive book on the 2014 European Parliament elections in a region where our collective knowledge is finally brought up to date.” (Professor Claes H. de Vreese, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

• Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

  Ruxandra Boicu, Silvia Branea, Adriana Stefanel

Ruxandra Boicu is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest, Romania, where she is Head of the MA on Media and Communication. She has authored Dezbaterea electorală televizată [The Televised Electoral Debate] (2011) and other books and scholarly articles on political discourse, gender studies, verbal interaction in blogging, and diasporic media.

Silvia Branea is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest, Romania. Her research interests include political communication, gender studies, and globalization. She has participated in prestigious international projects and is the author/co-author of several books and articles, including “Romanian Journalists and Politics in 2004”.

Adriana Ștefănel is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest, Romania. She won a postdoctoral scholarship in 2015 from University of Bucharest Research Institute to conduct research on populism and political discourse. She is the author of When the Stranger Become the Enemy: The Image of the Est-Europeans in Western-Europe Political Discourse (2014).   

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