Metamorphosis of the Civic Democratic Party's Attitudes to European Integration: On the New Cleaveage in the Czech Party System
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| Year of publication | 2005 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Politique européenne 16/2005 Vers une européanisation des partis politiques? |
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| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | political parties; Europeanization; Civic Democratic Party; Czech party system; European integration; Easternization; transitory order |
| Description | At the beginning of the 90s, the CDP together with Civic Democratic Alliance belonged to the key liberally defined reform-oriented parties which launched the initial extensive transition impulse. Clear foreign policy orientation implying the fastest possible integration into the Euro-Atlantic and European structures NATO and the EU - was an inherent part of transition and modernization plan. Declining the initial reform impetus of the CDP as connected to its key position and enormous involvement with the extensive transition agenda (political actors responding to new emerging economic interests taking advantage of the unique and specific conditions of the transitory regime) resulted in a substantial shift in transition strategy and trend of maintaining centrally controlled regime blocking alteration of the specific transition conditions of a non-regulated rudimental market which effectively led the CDP to the adaptation of more conservative etatist position. The Euroskeptic agenda emerged along with this process as the accession to the EU threatened the political-economic structures of the transitory regime. |
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