Political Communication and European Parliamentary Elections in Times of Crisis

1. Introduction: Proposal of a Framework for the 2014 European Parliament Elections and Campaigns in Central and Eastern Europe
Silvia Branea, Ruxandra Boicu

Part 1. Media Coverage and Political Marketing

2. Political Advertising During the 2014 Polish EU Parliamentary Election Campaign
Agnieszka Stępińska

3. Media Rhetoric and Virtual Communication in Bulgaria
Ivanka Mavrodieva

4. Intermedia Agenda-Setting During the European Parliament Elections in Poland
Bartlomiej Lodzki, Anna Paluch

5. An Overshadowed Campaign in Two Croatian Dailies
Gordana Vilović

6. Perspectives on the Romanian Electoral Context and Media Coverage of Campaign Discourses
Adriana Ștefănel

7. Coverage of the 2014 European Parliamentary Electoral Campaign in Romania’s Print Press (A Case Study)
Ruxandra Boicu

Part 2. A Second-Order Campaign

8. A Second-Order Campaign in Lithuania?
Ingrida Unikaitė Jakuntavičienė

9. Content Emptiness, Low Media Coverage, Exhausted Parties and Indifferent Voters: An Invisible 2014 European Parliamentary Election Campaign in the Czech Republic
Jakub Charvát

10. Outline of Female Candidates in Romania’s EP Elections
Silvia Branea

Part 3. European vs. National Agenda

11. The EU Agenda as an Emerging Cleavage of Political Competition? Parties and Their Voters in Slovakia
Olga Gyárfášová

12. European and National Agendas in the 2014 EP Elections in Hungary
Boglárka Koller

13. European Parliament Elections in the Czech Republic: Reflection of Citizens’ Agenda
Ilona Švihlíková

14. Looking Behind the Scene of the Panel Discussion Organized by the Czech Independent Think-Tanks Before the European Parliament Elections of 2014
Kryštof Kruliš

Part 4. Ideological Premises, Candidates‘ Recruitment, Vote Results

15. What’s the Right Kick-Off to a Good Finish? Polish Political Parties and Their Strategies in the 2014 European Parliament Elections
Marzena Cichosz

16. Results of the European Parliament Elections in Poland
Robert Alberski

17. Patterns of Recruitment of Polish Candidates in the 2014 European Parliament Elections
Dariusz Skrzypinski

18. Election Results, Candidate Lists and the Framing of Campaigns
Otto Eibl, Michal Pink

19. Eurosceptic Parties in the Czech Republic’s 2014 European Parliamentary Elections
Petr Just

20. Conclusions: Features of the 2014 European Elections in Central and Eastern Europe
Adriana Ștefănel

Nyckelord: Political Science and International Relations, Democracy, Political Communication, European Union Politics, Electoral Politics