The Comparison of the European elections in 2004 and 2009 with the case study of Slovakia

The thesis deals with the Euroepan elections in 2004 and 2009 where the emphasise is placed on Slovakia, as a new member country. The resource for the inquiry into the election results was the second order election model which was forumulated after the first direct elections to the European Parliament in 1979. The other tack of the thesis is current situation of parties representing the social democracy and the crisis of the social democracy in general which took effect in the European elections in 2009. In Slovakia, this overflow of the social democracy represented by the governing party SMER -- SD did not occur, thereby one of the basic rules of the second order elections was not approved. The thesis therefore resolves the question if this model is fully applicable to Slovakia, as a representative of the so -- called Eastern enlargement