Anonymized expert interview transcripts on the 2024 European Parliament elections in the Visegrad Group

This dataset contains anonymised transcripts of ten semi-structured expert interviews conducted with experts specialising in elections, party competition, populism, and democratic backsliding. The interviews were carried out in 2024 and focus on the campaign preceding the European Parliament elections in the Visegrad Group countries. All interview materials have been anonymised to remove identifying information. Interviewees are referenced as Interviewee 1–10. Audio recordings are not included to ensure confidentiality and compliance with ethical research standards. Keywords European Parliament elections; Hungary; Slovakia; Czechia; Poland; democratic backsliding; second-order elections; political campaigns Geographical coverage Visegrad Group countries Type of participants Experts Language English/Polish Funding National Science Centre, Poland, UMO-2023/49/B/HS5/02579 License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Files: interview_1_ Hungary_transcript interview_2_ Hungary_transcript interview_3_ Hungary_transcript interview_4_ Hungary_transcript interview_5_ Slovakia_transcript interview_6_ Slovakia_transcript interview_7_ Czechia_transcript interview_8_ Czechia_transcript interview_9_ Poland_transcript interview_10_ Poland_transcript