30.11.-0001 | Jan Kovář

Moving Forward or Turning Back? Slovak Parties and the Future of the EU

What is the position of Slovak political parties towards the institutional and political finality of European integration? Using cognitively and discursively based approach to study party positions, our senior researcher Jan Kovář shows in his research article how Slovak political parties differ regarding its preferred institutional structure of the EU and how their positions varied between 2004 and 2019.

This article explores which metaphors relevant political parties in Slovakia use when they speak about the EU's “finalité politique” by focusing on an analysis of their electoral manifestos prepared for the European Parliament elections in the period 2004–19. Based on the conceptual metaphor theory and a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods of metaphor analysis combining insights from European studies and cognitive linguistics, the analysis subsequently aims to estimate the positions of selected parties on the EU's finality. Kovář shows that while there are differences between the parties in their preferred “finalités politiques,” there is a certain mainstream party agreement on the issue.

The link to the full article is here.

Jan Kovář is a senior researcher at the IIR focusing on european integration.




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