This article investigates the career paths of Central European Members of the European Parliament. Based on an analysis of biographies and the results of a quantitative survey about career ambitions with MEPs from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia, this paper outlines both the career paths that lead to the European Parliament and...
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The main purpose of the article is to build a new multidimensional conceptualization of ‘supranational democracy’ in comparative perspective of national democracy and contribute to empirical research. It has to be remembered, however, that on the supranational level it is more difficult to achieve democracy than on a national level. Author went towards identifying the...
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The Slovenian political arena was recently marked by a political scandal involving a »standby bonus«. The media followed this scandal intensively. The article considers the potential meanings of political communication, mass media and the power the media seems to possess. The article focuses on how politicians are evaluated and described during scandals by considering a...
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Within the framework of the golden communication triangle (Perloff, 2008) and general mediatization concept, a particularly big number of theoretical analyses and empirical studies have been devoted to relations between political actors and the media. However, qualitative on-the-ground research among Central and East European party elites concerning their understanding of the media and journalists’ roles...
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