The domestic politics of EU action against democratic backsliding: public debates in Hungarian and Polish newspapers
研究了匈牙利和波兰国内政治行为体对欧盟法治干预的立场，发现执政党、反对党和公民社会主要关注国内批评而非支持欧盟行动。
Democratic backsliding in Hungary and Poland has inspired a growing literature on EU actions to enforce the rule of law at the member state level. Some researchers have warned against possible unintended consequences of EU interference, but systematic research on the domestic politics of EU rule of law protection in target countries is largely absent. We develop a set of theoretical expectations regarding the positions of domestic political actors towards backsliding governments and EU actions. We test our hypotheses with original data from news articles in Hungary and Poland. We find that governing parties, rather than blaming 'Brussels' for illegitimate interventions in domestic affairs, spend considerable effort defending their own actions. Similarly, opposition parties and civil society actors focus on criticising their country's governments instead of supporting EU actions. EU actions thus provide domestic actors opportunities to discuss democratic backsliding, but EU actions receive little support in public (newspaper) debates.