TY - BOOK ID - 5521008 TI - European Parliament elections after eastern enlargement PY - 2010 SN - 9780415509480 0415509483 9780415556750 0415556759 PB - London : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Elections KW - European Parliament KW - Elections. KW - European Union KW - Elections, 2004 KW - Elections, 2009 KW - European Union countries KW - Politics and government KW - Elections - European Union countries KW - European Union countries - Politics and government - 21st century UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5521008 AB - This book reflects on the questions raised by the European Election Study 2004 whose analytical focus was on the legitimacy of EU politics after Eastern enlargement. It also assesses the dynamics and the contents of the campaign, on the determinants of the extremely low turnout in the new countries, and on the reasons of voter choice in West and East. The book also examines the first European Parliament election after the post-communist countries of Eastern Europe joined the European Union. The central question is: what has changed? Are the voters in the new member countries different and if so, why? Did the Union suffer from a loss of democratic legitimacy after Eastern enlargement? Each chapter is empirical-analytical; most are based on the post-election surveys of the group that were conducted in all but one of the 25 member countries, others focus on the results of content analyses of news media and party manifestos. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Integration. ER -