Dělnická strana sociální spravedlnosti: postoj k systému
Worker’s Party of Social Justice: Attitude towards the System

Summary/Abstract: The Worker’s Party of Social Justice is the most significant far right party in the Czech Republic. Research on this party has not been very intensive and has looked at it as a whole. The present study is focused on the attitude of the party towards the liberal democratic political system of the Czech Republic and the liberal democratic political system in general. The main purpose was to investigate whether the party's attitude towards the political system is radical (but still compatible with the constitution) or anti-system. Two major issues were analyzed: criticism or refusal of liberal democracy, and suggested or planned changes of the political system. The analyses was based on Sartori's narrower definition of anti-system attitude which is broadly accepted and believed by the author of this study to be sufficiently sophisticated and therefore usable in this case. A wide variety of sources of party ideology was researched, including official party manifestos, contributions on the party website and in the party press, statements of leading members of the party etc. The results show that however this far right party pretends to be system-accepting its attitude is anti-system. The Worker’s Party of Social Justice is a representative of a non-democratic ideology.

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