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

• Authors: Žúborová Viera
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

New political parties; prophetic parties; purifiers parties; prolocutors parties

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Baltic Journal of Law & Politics
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 91-111

Dates

published

2015-12-01

received

2015-09-25

accepted

2015-12-28

online

2016-02-29

Contributors

author

Žúborová Viera

• University of St. Cyril and Methodius, Faculty of Social Sciences (Slovakia)

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/bjlp-2015-0020