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This book tackles the 2014 European Parliamentary election as an event, phenomenon and process from an interdisciplinary but coherent perspective. This edited volume includes research by prestigious academics from the former communist countries in question, all of which have only recently become EU members. The contributors consider whether there is a crisis of Euroscepticism, or, for that matter, extremism of any kind in each country discussed. In doing so, the volume seeks to analyse the future of the European Union itself. It will appeal to scholars and graduate students interested in elections and voting behaviour, comparative European politics, and political communication.    

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This collection of essays offers unique snapshots of national contests within nations facing challenges for the embedding of democracy. ... The rich coverage and insightful data within the essays raise particularly important questions for consideration for the study of the future of democracy in Europe. Hence this work represents a must read for scholars and practitioners in this important field of human endeavour and the book a timely and welcome contribution to the Palgrave Political Communication and Campaigning series. (Darren G. Lilleker, Medijske Studije, Vol. 7 (14), 2016)

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Ruxandra Boicu is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest, Romania, where she is Head of the MA on Media and Communication. She has authored Dezbaterea electorală televizată [The Televised Electoral Debate] (2011) and other books and scholarly articles on political discourse, gender studies, verbal interaction in blogging, and diasporic media. Silvia Branea is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest, Romania. Her research interests include political communication, gender studies, and globalization. She has participated in prestigious international projects and is the author/co-author of several books and articles, including “Romanian Journalists and Politics in 2004”. Adriana Ștefănel is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest, Romania. She won a postdoctoral scholarship in 2015 from University of Bucharest Research Institute to conduct research on populism and political discourse. She is the author of When the Stranger Become the Enemy: The Image of the Est-Europeans in Western-Europe Political Discourse (2014).   

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