1. Introduction: Driver, Conductor or Fellow Passenger? EU Membership and Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe Tim Haughton 2. The dog that did not bark? Assessing the impact of the EU on party politics in Hungary Agnes Batory 3. When in doubt, (re-)turn to domestic politics? The (non-) impact of the EU on party politics in Poland Aleks Szczerbiak and Monika Bil 4. Force Mineure? The Effects of the EU on Party Politics in a Small Country: The Case of Estonia Allan Sikk 5. The European Union: A Joker or Just an Ordinary Playing Card for Slovenian Political Parties? Alenka Krašovec and Damjan Lajh 6. Europeanization of Political Parties and the Party System in the Czech Republic Vít Hloušek and Pavel Pšeja 7. A Tool in the Toolbox: Assessing the Impact of EU Membership on Party Politics in Slovakia Tim Haughton and Marek Rybá¿ 8. The Europeanization of Political Parties in Central and Eastern Europe? The Impact of EU Entry on Issue Stances, Salience and Programmatic Coherence Stephen Whitefield and Robert Rohrschneider

Tim Haughton is Senior Lecturer in the Politics of Central and Eastern Europe, University of Birmingham.

This collection assesses the impact of European Union membership on parties' organization and programmes in the new EU member states of Central and Eastern Europe.

This book was published as a special issue in Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics.