Economic Crisis and Euroscepticism: A Comparative Study of the Hungarian and Italian Case (1990–2013)

This comparative paper examines the reasons and the features of the rising Euroscepticism in Italy and in Hungary in the light of economic, financial, and political crisis. The financial crisis became the main focus of the political debates and discourses among the Italian and the Hungarian politica...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:ecf736076b884dddb70900015b5c8a3e2021-12-02T19:10:15ZEconomic Crisis and Euroscepticism: A Comparative Study of the Hungarian and Italian Case (1990–2013)1801-342210.1515/pce-2016-0017https://doaj.org/article/ecf736076b884dddb70900015b5c8a3e2016-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/pce-2016-0017https://doaj.org/toc/1801-3422This comparative paper examines the reasons and the features of the rising Euroscepticism in Italy and in Hungary in the light of economic, financial, and political crisis. The financial crisis became the main focus of the political debates and discourses among the Italian and the Hungarian political parties between 2008 and 2013. In Italy and Hungary, Euroscepticism is still on the rise. In the first chapter, I will shortly summarise the conceptual framework of Euroscepticism. In the second chapter, I provide an overview of the way Hungarian and Italian political discourse has envisioned Europe in the post-bipolar, or post-Maastricht, period that began in the early 1990s. The fall of the Berlin wall had a decisive impact on the domestic politics of Hungary and Italy, and subsequent international changes created the basis for different forms of transitions in both countries. Hungary left behind dictatorship and the one-party system to create a functioning democracy, whereas Italy experienced the end of the political party system of the “First Republic,” giving birth to the highly promising “Second Republic.”Molnár AnnaSciendoarticleitalyhungaryeuropean unioneuroscepticismintegrationdomestic politicsPolitical scienceJCSENSKPolitics in Central Europe, Vol 12, Iss 3, Pp 51-82 (2016)
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hungary
european union
euroscepticism
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domestic politics
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Molnár Anna
Economic Crisis and Euroscepticism: A Comparative Study of the Hungarian and Italian Case (1990–2013)
description This comparative paper examines the reasons and the features of the rising Euroscepticism in Italy and in Hungary in the light of economic, financial, and political crisis. The financial crisis became the main focus of the political debates and discourses among the Italian and the Hungarian political parties between 2008 and 2013. In Italy and Hungary, Euroscepticism is still on the rise. In the first chapter, I will shortly summarise the conceptual framework of Euroscepticism. In the second chapter, I provide an overview of the way Hungarian and Italian political discourse has envisioned Europe in the post-bipolar, or post-Maastricht, period that began in the early 1990s. The fall of the Berlin wall had a decisive impact on the domestic politics of Hungary and Italy, and subsequent international changes created the basis for different forms of transitions in both countries. Hungary left behind dictatorship and the one-party system to create a functioning democracy, whereas Italy experienced the end of the political party system of the “First Republic,” giving birth to the highly promising “Second Republic.”
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title Economic Crisis and Euroscepticism: A Comparative Study of the Hungarian and Italian Case (1990–2013)
title_short Economic Crisis and Euroscepticism: A Comparative Study of the Hungarian and Italian Case (1990–2013)
title_full Economic Crisis and Euroscepticism: A Comparative Study of the Hungarian and Italian Case (1990–2013)
title_fullStr Economic Crisis and Euroscepticism: A Comparative Study of the Hungarian and Italian Case (1990–2013)
title_full_unstemmed Economic Crisis and Euroscepticism: A Comparative Study of the Hungarian and Italian Case (1990–2013)
title_sort economic crisis and euroscepticism: a comparative study of the hungarian and italian case (1990–2013)
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