Newcomers in Politics? The Success of New Political Parties in the Slovak and Czech Republic after 2010?

Autor: Viera Žúborová
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Baltic Journal of Law & Politics, Vol 8, Iss 2, Pp 91-111 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2029-0454
DOI: 10.1515/bjlp-2015-0020
Popis: The last election in the Slovak and Czech Republic was special. It not only took place before the official electoral period (pre-elections), but new political parties were “again” successful. The article focuses not only on both elections in the last two years in a comparative perspective, but it analyses the opportunity structure of success as well, including types of new political parties (according to Lucardie). The article seeks to answer the question: why are new political parties electorally successful, able to break into parliament and even become part of a coalition government? We assume that the emergence and success of new political parties in both countries relied on the ability to promote “old” ideas in a new fashion, colloquially referred to as “new suits” or “old” ideological flows in new breeze.
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