Strange Bedfellows : A Hyper-pragmatic Alliance between European Liberals and an Illiberal Czech Technocrat
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F22%3A00118765" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/22:00118765 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0888325420953487" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0888325420953487</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0888325420953487" target="_blank" >10.1177/0888325420953487</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Strange Bedfellows : A Hyper-pragmatic Alliance between European Liberals and an Illiberal Czech Technocrat
Original language description
The article deals with the membership of the most important Czech political party, ANO (meaning “yes” in Czech), led by Andrej Babiš, in the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE). Our goals are to reconstruct how Babiš’s party joined ALDE and to discuss the ideological differences between ANO and ALDE. The paper shows that ALDE’s offer of membership in 2014 was motivated by a pragmatic need to bolster its own position in the European Parliament; ANO, meanwhile, needed to anchor itself in European politics. Andrej Babiš’s technocratic and illiberal view was not apparent at the beginning, but more importantly, this did not matter to ALDE. ALDE’s Czech “point of contact,” ANO’s foreign policy expert and the leader of its party group in the European Parliament, Pavel Telička, made ANO’s membership credible. However, as a Euro-optimist, Telička was not compatible with ANO’s flexible ideological character in the long term and the party group split up. A comparison of the parties’ European Parliament election manifestos and positions on crucial controversial European issues clearly reveals a deep division between ALDE and ANO and their fundamentally opposed ideological positions. We describe the findings as a new hyper-pragmatic trend in the creation of Europarties, which weakens their ideological cohesion.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-02226S" target="_blank" >GA17-02226S: The Political Entrepreneurs: The Czech Republic in Comparative Perspective</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
East European Politics and Societies and Cultures
ISSN
0888-3254
e-ISSN
1533-8371
Volume of the periodical
36
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
22
Pages from-to
29-50
UT code for WoS article
000572750100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85091353856