Challenging Trends within Slovak Party System in the Context of 2016 Elections to the National Council of the Slovak Republic

Filipec, Ondřej

doi:10.2478/pce-2019-0001

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“…After some time, Facebook blocked the profiles of the party and some of its top representatives, but we managed to archive some statements relevant to our research. As the Slovak party system and political parties are weakly institutionalised (Filipec, 2019), which is reflected in the fragmentation of political parties and changes in party affiliations, some of the cited representatives are no longer members of the examined political party. However, this aspect cannot preclude the inclusion of their statements in the analysis, since they figured as party members at the publication time of their statements.…”

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Securitisation of Migration in the Language of Slovak Far-Right Populism

2021

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Although the Slovak Republic is not a country of immigrants, since 2015 the topic of international migration has dominated its political discourse. Due to the migration situation in 2015, Slovak politicians have also begun to use the topic of migration to mobilise their voters. Paradoxically, there are no significant differences among the relevant Slovak political parties on this topic, hence Slovak politicians take a similar approach to the issue of migration. This article focuses on the People's Party Our Slovakia as a leading representative of far-right populism. We intend to explore how Slovak far-right populists articulate the issue of international migration. Our analysis has found that the language of far-right populists reflects a dichotomy of “we/us” (good) vs. “they/them” (evil). Far-right populists emphasise the negative consequences of migration, as they perceive migrants as a threat to national security. In-depth analyses of political texts have revealed that the securitisation of migration by far-right populists has several dimensions. Migrants are perceived as a threat to the economic, political and cultural security of the state.

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Securitisation of Migration in the Language of Slovak Far-Right Populism

2021

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“…engler et al 72 also add Freedom and Solidarity (Sloboda a Solidarita, SaS) and the newer Sme Rodina to the list of anti-establishment parties often understood as populist (and, disagreeing with Spáč, their analysis also groups SNS and ĽSNS into this same group). Together, this reveals a volatile and unpredictable party system 73 that has not crystallized into an "establishment," but despite that, the salience of populist and anti-establishment rhetoric has remained high. Following the 2020 election, in which previously noted trends preferring more radical parties did not continue, 74 the centrist, anti-establishment OĽaNO 75 (with its governing partner Sme Rodina) have picked up where SMeR left off, after SMeR picked up where HZDS had left off.…”

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Exclusively Our People: Defining Tribalism through the Slovak Case

Hartikainen,

Szebeni

2023

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures

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We define tribalism as a mode of articulation that draws an antagonistic frontier between societal groups. Unlike populism, tribalism does not have a hegemonic character. It articulates groups through a horizontally oriented shared value system; whereas populism is an essential part of a democratic system, tribalism disregards democracy. To conceptualize tribalism as a separate theoretical frame from populism or (ethno)nationalism, we used discourse theoretical analysis to analyze the Facebook pages of four political party leaders in Slovakia (Marian Kotleba, Krisztián Forró, Igor Matovic, and Boris Kollár). Kotleba’s page showed tribalistic features by articulating an antagonistic divide between “us,” the people, linked by shared values and identities, and anyone who does not share those values, or “them.” His representation of his party’s fight against oppressive forces combined with their apathetic stance toward democracy makes them a prime example of a tribalist party. While populism is an ever-expanding area of research and a framework widely used to analyze political entities and events, it is a word often thrown around and thus overused. Tribalism offers an alternative approach to analyze political instances in a national and transnational context in a more nuanced way and gain a better understanding of previously overlooked phenomena.

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“…12 Slovakia's 2019 presidential election was conspicuously determined by the domestic political background much more than any other election ever. The Government was formed after the 2016 general election which brought an unwonted and ideologically-heterogeneous coalition composed of social democratic Smer-SD, nationalist Slovenská národná strana (SNS, Slovak National Party), centre-right #Sieť (#Network), and Most-Híd (The Bridge), a Slovak-Hungarian party (Just, 2019;Rybář, Spáč, 2017;Zvada 2018;Filipec 2019). This Fico's third Cabinet was set up and agreed, although, in their campaigns the latter two political parties openly proclaimed that lacked any intention to join a coalition composed of Fico's Smer-SD.…”

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Where Were the Voters? A Spatial Analysis of the 2019 Slovak Presidential Election

Zvada

Petlach

Ondruška

2020

SJPS

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This paper endeavours to deliver a comprehensive spatial depiction of Slovakia’s presidential election held on 16th and 30th March 2019. At first, the text briefly considers electoral and institutional framework of presidential elections and its background. Within the context of the first round, the paper subsequently analyses the electoral support of four key candidates who had obtained at least 10 per cent in order to clarify the overall electoral support. At the municipal level, the analysis of aggregated data then brings a complex mapping of regional electoral support towards the presidential candidates. Our negative binomial regression models, based on socio-economic variables and the results of the 2016 parliamentary election, yield no satisfactory results. Nonetheless, among others, it was revealed that the final two contenders did not lose their voters from the previous round. In comparison to Šefčovič, Čaputová succeeded in acquiring lower levels of new electoral support (up to 20 per cent) but across the whole country. Afterwards, the Hungarian minority was proved a determinative factor for the win, contrarily to the socio-economic indicators as explicative variables of which the university degree and age were found the most significant.

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Challenging Trends within Slovak Party System in the Context of 2016 Elections to the National Council of the Slovak Republic

Cited by 10 publications

References 25 publications

Securitisation of Migration in the Language of Slovak Far-Right Populism

Securitisation of Migration in the Language of Slovak Far-Right Populism

Exclusively Our People: Defining Tribalism through the Slovak Case

Where Were the Voters? A Spatial Analysis of the 2019 Slovak Presidential Election

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