Petr Kaniok- PhD
- Professor (Full) at Masaryk University
Petr Kaniok
- PhD
- Professor (Full) at Masaryk University
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Introduction
My current research focuses on the institutional dimension of the EU politics, not exclusively at the EU level. I am also interested in the role of the national institutions in the EU matrix.
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September 2003 - September 2006
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Publications (77)
Existing research on EU legitimacy has neglected one aspect – the
transformation of EU strategies into concrete national plans. This
article reflects on this gap by analysing the throughput legitimacy
of the implementation of the ambitious and transformative Next
Generation EU (NGEU) plan into national strategies, called Recovery
and Resilienc...
Despite being unprepared for the COVID-19 outburst in spring 2020, Czechia did particularly well in handling the first weeks of the pandemic. However, the government which was the key actor in the whole process did not use the following summer months to prepare the country for autumn and winter, and the Czech success turned into a catastrophe that...
The personalization of politics represents a growing research field in European studies. Yet, despite this, an institutional sphere of politics remained rather overlooked. This article aims to fill this gap, focusing on the only European Union (EU) institution with legitimacy derived directly from EU citizens: the European Parliament (EP). This stu...
Strengthening the role of national parliaments in EU matters has triggered a broad discussion on whether the legislatures are effective and which parliamentary functions they should fulfil within the EU political system. The involvement of national legislatures can be measured by applying the concept of parliamentary strength based on a set of indi...
EU Council working groups still represent a topic that is neglected in EU research. If they are analysed, the effect of socialisation is particularly tested while rationally motivated factors such as a Left-Right position, green/alternative/libertarian (GAL) and traditionalism/authority/nationalism (TAN) positions or approaches towards the EU are l...
The foreign policy orientation of Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries has been changing in recent years. Countries which were, since the 1990s, oriented towards structures such as NATO or EU have started to flirt with partners such as Russia and China. Apart from Russian and Chinese interventions into CEE domestic development, little is kn...
As migration and its securitisation change the political environment in the EU, we examine whether security speech acts (restrictive suggestions) prevail over human security speech acts (a liberal approach) towards irregular migration in the eighth (EU) parliamentary debates and which structural determinants predict delivering one or the other spee...
The article engages in the debate about the extent of the domestic politicization of Brexit in the EU27, and the causes and agents thereof. More specifically, it examines which parliamentary actors in Czechia and Slovakia have tried to de/politicize Brexit, and which strategies they have applied while doing so. By inquiring into the concrete de/pol...
Euroscepticism has become a stable component of the European Parliament. But is there one distinct Euroscepticism in the European Parliament or do various types exist there? Departing from the widely accepted definitions of hard and soft Euroscepticism, we analysed the behaviour of Eurosceptical groups in the European Parliament in order to assess...
This chapter summarises the findings of the country chapters. It first discusses the extent to which the concept of second-order elections applies to the contests in Central and Eastern European elections to the European Parliament 2019. The authors then assess the validity of the five hypotheses outlined in the introductory chapter, which are rela...
This chapter analyses electoral results, second-order features and the performance of Euroscepticism in the Czech Republic since 2004, with a special emphasis on the 2019 EP elections. The analysis reveals that almost all mainstream parties in Czechia could be labelled as a bit soft Eurosceptic according to the 2019 campaign. The clear line cutting...
This chapter provides an introduction to the topic as well as conceptual background of the country chapters. The concepts of second-order elections and Euroscepticism are briefly discussed. Furthermore, five hypotheses pertaining to the role of Euroscepticism in the 2019 European parliament elections are sketched as follows: (1) Soft Euroscepticism...
The integration process is increasingly politicized across the member states of the European Union (EU). While this phenomenon has been analyzed from many perspectives, this article aims to look at a so far neglected aspect—how increased levels of politicization of the EU might have impacted on the role small states play in the EU decision-making p...
This book provides an analysis of the European Parliament elections 2019 with a focus on East-Central European countries. The authors offer conceptual insights into Euroscepticism and discuss traditionally familiar concepts in a new light, pairing East-Central European Euroscepticism with visions of illiberal democracy, on the one hand, and showing...
The European Parliament elections in 2014 and 2019 were different insofar as European citizens had the possibility to ‘directly’ influence who could become the next President of the European Commission. This innovation is based on the idea of ‘Spitzenkandidaten’, where a vote for a given political party also represents a vote for its lead candidate...
Coordination systems of the European agenda in EU Member states have been mostly examined thought three traditional neo-institutional approaches. Historical, rational choice and sociological institutional approaches greatly vary in explaining what causes changes in EU affairs coordination structures. We propose that such disagreement is caused by t...
The aim of the article is to explore how the Czech bicameral parliament has reacted to the process of the United Kingdom's (UK's) withdrawal from the European Union (EU). Drawing upon insights from the theoretical expectations of parliamentary power, the inquiry researches the ways that Czech legislatures have developed in terms of engaging with an...
The chapter analyses differences between soft and hard Eurosceptic MEPs when it comes to their approaches towards future EU enlargement. It looks both at the declared positions (party manifestos) as well as at particular votings on enlargement agenda. The chapter argues that there are important differences between both camps as hard Eurosceptics si...
Parliamentary questions are a direct form of parliamentary scrutiny of other EU institutions and bodies, traditionally being an important tool for the opposition. This study examines how parliamentary questions are used in the European Parliament. We ascertain whether political groups representing opposition differ in their use of parliamentary que...
The outcome of the Brexit referendum has led to a highly mediatized battle of power between the British government and parliament over how much influence the latter can exert over the British position in the negotiations with the European Union (EU). At the same time, the role of parliaments in the remaining member states has received virtually no...
This article is concerned with the positions of political actors on European Union (EU) issues and examines how these positions impact the coordination of the European agenda. Theoretically, the analysis is based on a model in which political actors maximise their preferences, as developed in rational-choice institutionalism. The authors use two de...
How do soft and hard Eurosceptics differ from each other? This question has become more salient in recent years, as party-based Euroscepticism has been affecting daily mainstream European politics. This article explores this question through an examination of the impact of Brexit outside the United Kingdom. Using the Czech Republic, a country with...
Although the objectives of hard Eurosceptic parties are focused on the European Union (EU), a presence in the European Parliament (EP) is not their final goal. In order to fulfil their main objective – disbanding of the EU – they need to be relevant at the national level as well. Thus, being represented at the EU level can be used by them as a spri...
There are two competing perceptions of the EU Council and its working groups. The first of them argues that the Council works as a battleground for expressing the interests of Member States and other participating actors. A competing view emphasizes the effects of socialization and informal norm shaping behaviour of the actors involved. It thus con...
The Roll Call Vote (RCV) of Members of the European Parliament is a standard data source for modern research into the European Parliament (EP). RCV samples are used in particular to study political group cohesion and the emergence of conflict lines within the EP. Current mainstream research thus treats RCVs as a reliable source of data. But other r...
Euroscepticism and populism, however defined, are often taken as two sides of the same coin, both in public discourse and academic debates. This paper challenges this common wisdom by analysing the case of the Czech Republic. Reviewing the EU related press releases produced by either Eurosceptic or Populist Czech parties, covering a six months peri...
This study analyses the behaviour of the Czech Republic as a small European Union (EU) member country. For the analysis the model of Baldur Thorhallsson was used, which for small EU countries assumes the presence of several characteristics - their good relationship with the European Commission (EC), prioritization of objectives and the flexibility...
This report analyses national parliament participation in the decision-making of the EU and evaluates how the national parliaments as a collective actor have performed thus far. It explains the collective scrutiny mechanisms introduced by the Lisbon Treaty. After that, it provides an analysis of the methods and mechanisms that exist in EU member st...
This article analyses development of the Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the European Union (PermRep) from 2004, when the Czech Republic joined the European Union, until 2013. Its main aim is to test four concepts related to the three neoinstitutionalist theories – firstly, the path dependency and critical junctures models related...
Based on an analysis of several EU Presidencies, Swe dish political scientist Jonas Tallberg created a model that identifies ways in wh ich EU Presidency countries shape the EU agenda. In this model, Tallberg concep tualises the process of agenda shaping in a broader way and particularly focuses o n structuring issues that are already a part of the...
This article describes and evaluates 2014 Czech European Parliament (EP) election. Starting with the context of the election, it goes through all relevant party actors participating in the election and introduces them both in general ideological terms as well as in relation towards the European integration. After results of election are discussed,...
The book contributes to the debate on Europeanisation of the Czech politics which has been taking part for more than a decade. The goal of authors was not to analyse Europeanisation in general but, using the particular example of the strategy Europe 2020, to show whether and how the Czech political actors cope with challenges and commitments of the...
Evropská unie prošla ve 21. století řadou pozoruhodných procesů, které se týkaly jak jejího rozšiřování, tak prohlubování evropské integrace. Přesto se nedá říci, že by byla uspokojivě zodpovězena otázka její finalité a ve světle existujících konceptů státnosti představuje stále útvar sui generis. Ani Lisabonská smlouva neznamenala plnou etatizaci...
Based on a thorough analysis of several EU presidencies in the early 21st century Swedish
political scientist Jonas Tallberg created a concept that identifies ways of how Presidency
countries work on the creation of their program. In this concept, Tallberg conceptualizes the
proces of agenda setting in a broader way and particularly focuses on stru...
The aim of this paper is to investigate the discourse of Vaclav Klaus on European integration by analysing his discourse on the euro during his term of office as President of the Czech Republic. The authors apply critical discourse analysis to selected speeches by Klaus, using their findings to analyse Klaus’s position on the Euro and European inte...
The EU Presidency has been so far studied especially in terms of its EU impact and influence while neglecting its potential impact at the domestic level. This article, dealing with the Czech EU Presidency of 2009, focuses on this domestic dimension. Based upon more than 30 elite interviews with civil servants and official documents, it analyses the...
The European Union (EU) has been changing since the start of the economic
crisis in 2008. Many previously uncontested issues – among them the euro - have been
challenged. As a result of these developments, attitudes usually labelled as Euroscepticism
have become more accepted as a part of the political mainstream. This article tries to
identify – o...
When, in the beginning of 2009, the Party of Free Citizens was founded, it was believed that the main impulse for establishing a new political party was the generally positive approach towards the Lisbon Treaty adopted by the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) a couple of months before. Thus, since its foundation, the media, commentators and political an...
Both in the Czech and European contexts, the Council of the EU is a relatively frequent subject of interest in political science research. A substantial amount of work (both in the tradition of qualitative and quantitative research) focuses especially on the process of coalition building and the impact and functioning of the different levels of the...
The EU decision-making system is a unique combination of the power of the states and supranational institutions. The relationship between the institutions and the states allows us to establish several competing theoretical explanations while trying to describe and explain this mutual relationship. One of the most influential theoretical explanation...
This paper analyzes first Czech direct presidential elections of January 2013. Particular attention is paid to the relevance of EU affairs in the election campaign.
Being a part of academic discussion for more than 10 years, Euroscepticism (especially in connection with party politics) have not been so far adequate defined. Widely accepted definition by Taggart and Szczerbiak who has divided Euroscepticism between its “hard” and “soft” version suffers from several weaknesses as the whole conceptualization lack...
This article is searching for the motivation of founding of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group in the European Parliament. It focuses on the two most important actors – the Czech Civic Democratic Party (ODS) and the British Conservative Party (CONS). The effort of the parties mentioned to exclude themselves from the mainstream is expla...
The Presidency of the EU Council is regarded as an influential and useful instrument for domestic political progress of European integration and the issues it brings along. Many academics as well as politicians assume that the EU Council Presidency, which allows any country to be at the centre of European and world media attention for six months, t...
The article focuses on the role of the phenomenon of Euroscepticism in the issue of the legitimacy of the European Union (EU), namely on the relation between the current conceptualisation of Euroscepticism and the EU’s ability to operate „imide“ the system as a credible actor. The text is based on the analytical premise that the EU is not a static...
Iceland was the last Nordic country to apply for membership in the European Union (EU). The position of the country, which refused to join the European integration process for a long period of time, is supposed to change in the near future. In July 2009, the country filed an application to join the EU and it is expected that by the end of 2012 Icel...
The paper describes and analyses Czech parliamentary elections held in May 2010. It deals with the background, campaign, and outcomes of the elections. Attention is paid as well to the reason why the EU-related issues played hardly any role in the campaign and voting.
Publikace se věnuje podrobné analýze českého předsednictví Rady EU z roku 2009. Česká premiéra řízení Rady EU je zkoumána nejen přes funkce předsednictví, ale také v kontextu předsednického tria a domácích souvislostí.
The text firstly briefly introduces the Presidency as an instrument or tool of the decision-making process within the EU. The article further presents the basic potential criteria for evaluating an EU Council Presidency. Then the course of the Czech Presidency is described according to how it dealt with its functions. In the concluding analysis the...
The paper deals with The 2009 European Parliament Election in the Czech Republic, June 5-6 2009.
Jan Karlas a kolektiv autorů: Jak předsedat Evropské unii?
Návrh priorit předsednictví ČR v Radě EU v roce 2009.
1. vydání. Praha: Ústav mezinárodních vztahů, 2008, 146 stran, ISBN 978-80-86506-66-1 (signatura knihovny ÚMV De 54 517 PK).
1. vyd. Pod názvem: European parliament generation 1000 výt. Primárně určeno vysokoškolským studentům a širší veřejnosti
The paper has been elaborated in the framework of the Ministry of education, youth and physical education research project "Political Parties and the Interest Representation in the Contemporary European Democracies" (the code No. MSM0021622407).
The article focuses on the research of the role of European political parties
during the process of preparation of European constitution by the
Convention on the future of Europe. Its objective is to verify two
hypotheses. The first one assumes that European political parties (for
capacity reasons the article mentions two strongest ones - the Europ...
At the close of the 1990s and the beginning of the present century, a series of papers appeared in political science circles, which attempted to capture the phenomenon of Euroscepticism and especially its party manifestations. Th is eff ort has lead to total confu-sion as almost every kind of critique towards the European Integration being consider...
This article focuses on the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of the European Union (EU). It aims to discern the different possibilities for fulfilling the Presidency's functions af-ter the adoption of the so-called European constitution. The article is divided into two parts. The first part examines the development of the Presiden-cy up to th...
1. vyd. Pod názvem: Mezinárodní politologický ústav Masarykovy univerzity 1000 výt.
1. vyd. Nad názvem: European Parliament generation 1000 výt.
