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Results

The first results of the project have been presented in several conferences (see the Events section). The main results have been published in a book (Routledge 2018) as well as in a Special Issue in the journal Historical Social Research (vol 41(4) 2016).  

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Contents (chapters):​

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1. Introduction: The Eurocrisis and National Political Elites [Nicolò Conti, Borbála Göncz and José Real-Dato]

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2. A Challenged Project: The ‘Europe of Elites’ in Crisis [Heinrich Best and Lars Vogel]

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3. The Influence of the Crisis on the Perceptions of European Union Institutions by National Political Elites [José Real-Dato, Maurizio Cotta, and Juan Rodríguez-Teruel]

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4. Levels of Policy Decisions: Do Elite Preferences Differ Before and After the Crisis? [György Lengyel, Bálint Lengyel and Nicolò Conti]

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5. European Integration in the View of Political Elites and Citizens – An Increasing Gap? [Lars Vogel and Borbála Göncz]

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6. Individuals vs. Parties: Comparing MPs’ Positions to the Positions of Their Own Parties [Marko Kukec, Bojana Kocijan and Luca Verzichelli]

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7. Resilience of Pro-European Consensus among Political Elites in Crisis: 'Old' and 'New' EU Member States Compared [Matej Makarovič, Matevž Tomšič]

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8. The Future of the EU: Between Integration and Disintegration [Francesco Marangoni and Federico Russo]

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9. Conclusions: Still a Europe of Elites [José Real-Dato, Borbála Göncz and Nicolò Conti]

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  • Lars Vogel and Juan Rodríguez-Teruel (2016) "Staying on Course in Turbulent Times: National Political Elites and the Crisis of European Integration", doi: 10.12759/hsr.41.2016.4.7–37

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  • Bojana Kocijan and Marko Kukec (2016) "From Hard Consensus to Soft Euroscepticism: Attitudes of Croatian MPs on EU Integration", doi: 10.12759/hsr.41.2016.4.38–60

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  • Lars Vogel (2016) "Maintaining the Permissive Consensus in Times of Crises: The Europeanness of Germany’s Political Elites, 2007–2014", doi: 10.12759/hsr.41.2016.4.61–85.

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  • Yannis Tsirbas and Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos (2016) "Europe at the Epicenter of National Politics: The Attitudes of Greek Political Elites Towards the European Union and the Economic Crisis",  doi: 10.12759/hsr.41.2016.4.86–105

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  • Borbála Göncz and György Lengyel (2016) "Changing Attitudes of Hungarian Political Elites Towards the EU (2007–2014)",  doi: 10.12759/hsr.41.2016.4.106–128.

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  • Nicolò Conti, Maurizio Cotta and Luca Verzichelli (2016) "The Economic Crisis and its Effects on the Attitudes of Italian Political Elites Towards the EU",  doi: 10.12759/hsr.41.2016.4.129–149

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  • Irmina Matonyte, Gintaras Šumskas and Vaidas Morkevičius (2016) "Europeanness of Lithuanian Political Elite: Europhilia, Russophobia and Neoliberalism", doi: 10.12759/hsr.41.2016.4.150–172.

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  • Pedro T. Magalhães, João Cancela and Catherine Moury
    Scattered Clouds in the Horizon of Consensus: Attitudes of Portuguese Parliamentary Elites Towards Europe Before and After the Crisis",  doi: 10.12759/hsr.41.2016.4.173–194.

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  • Matej Makarovič, Lea Prijon, Mateja Rek & Matevž Tomšič (2016) "The Strength of Pro-European Consensus Among Slovenian Political Elites", doi: 10.12759/hsr.41.2016.4.195–213.

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  • Juan Rodríguez-Teruel, José Real-Dato and Miguel Jerez (2016) "But Still Enthusiastic: The Unchanged Europeanness of the Spanish Parliamentary Elite During the Eurozone Crisis", doi: 10.12759/hsr.41.2016.4.214–238.

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  • Dobrinka Kostova (2016) "Report on Bulgaria: Elites’ Europeanness and their Trust in Institutions", doi: 10.12759/hsr.41.2016.4.239–253.​

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Other outputs of the ENEC-2014 project are: 

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  • Kocijan, Bojana and Marko Kukec (2022) "Immigration attitudes among Western and Eastern European MPs: social identity, economic aspects and political ideology", Comparative European Politics (2022) 20: 33–52 https://doi.org/10.1057/s41295-021-00254-5.

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  • Real-Dato, José (2018) "La influencia de la Unión Europea y la congruencia entre ciudadanos y representantes en el voto a Podemos en mayo de 2014". In Mariano Torcal (ed.) Opinión pública y cambio electoral en España: claves ante el reto europeo y la crisis política y económica. Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, pp. 129-151.

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  • Conti, Nicolò (2016) "The Italian political elites and Europe: Big move, small change?", International Political Science Review, first online publication, DOI: 10.1177/0192512116641803.

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  • Kostova D., 2014, Bulgaria between Formal Democratisation and Social Disintegration, in: Kostova D., ed., Institutional Trust, Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Academic Publishing House, pp. 278-304, ISBN:978-954-322-779-2.

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  • Костова Д., 2014, Демократизация и развитие в България, в: Костова Д., научен редактор, Демократизацията в епохата на глобализация и медиатизация, София: Академично издателство "Проф. Mарин Дринов" (Кostova D., 2014, Democratisation and Development in Bulgaria, in: Kostova D., ed., Democratisation in the Period of Globalisation and Mediatisation, Sofia:  Prof. Marin Drinov Academic Publishing House, pp. 9-21) ISBN:978-954-322-794-5

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