Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: 10.2478/bjlp-2020-0012
Title: Europeanization by European Parliament Political Groups : The Case of Latvia 2004-2019
Authors: Andžāns, Māris
Bukovskis, Kārlis
Sprūds, Andris
Faculty of European Studies
Keywords: Europeanization;political parties;European Parliament;European Parliament political groups;Latvia;5.6 Political science;1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database
Issue Date: Dec-2020
Citation: Andžāns , M , Bukovskis , K & Sprūds , A 2020 , ' Europeanization by European Parliament Political Groups : The Case of Latvia 2004-2019 ' , Baltic Journal of Law and Politics , vol. 13 , no. 2 , pp. 76-108 . https://doi.org/10.2478/bjlp-2020-0012
Abstract: This article assesses the top-down Europeanization of national political parties by the political groups of the European Parliament. Based on the premise that the national political parties alter their agendas and argumentation because of ties to their respective European Parliament political groups, the paper presents a case study of Latvia in the period from 2004 to 2019. The analysis focuses on the agendas of three political parties whose continuity can be clearly traced during the fifteen years – the “New Unity”, the “National Alliance” and the “Latvian Russian Union”. It concludes that the small number of members of the European Parliament elected from Latvia, migration of individual politicians from party to party, and low durability of Latvian parties themselves has limited the sustainability of Europeanization and impeded downloading of EU topics and principles to the national party level. Meanwhile, party programs of all three observed parties have Europeanized since 2004 in terms of the number and depth of the EU issues addressed.
DOI: 10.2478/bjlp-2020-0012
ISSN: 2029-0454
Appears in Collections:Research outputs from Pure / Zinātniskās darbības rezultāti no ZDIS Pure

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