第二次大戦後チェコスロヴァキアにおける 人民の民主主義と政党間競合 ―― 国民社会党を中心に ――
Party Competition Structure and People’s Democracy in Post-war Czechoslovakia: Visions and Strategies of the National Socialist Party

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the Czechoslovak “People’s Democracy” during the so-called Third Republic after the Second World War. In order to understand the features of this “new democracy,” it explores the competition structure among the parties in the National Front, focusing on the visions and strategies of the National Socialist Party. The National Socialists, the most competitive rival to the Communists, accepted the National Front coalition, which expelled three important political parties in the First Republic. In marked contrast to the foundation of the party politics in the First Republic, the politicians in the National Socialist Party denied the very concept of functional representation of partial interests, that is, the interests of various vocational parts of nation, criticizing the functional representation as the cause of disease against democracy. The goal of the National Socialist Party was to transform itself into the real “people’s party,” which represented all the working people supporting the national socialist cause, including the former supporters of the prohibited Agrarian Party.

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