PRIESTOROVÁ KONCENTRÁCIA ANTI-SYSTÉMOVEJ STRANY V REGIÓNOCH SLOVENSKA
SPATIAL CONCENTRATION OF ANTI-SYSTEM PARTY IN SLOVAK REGIONS

Author(s): Štefan Rehák, Oliver RAFAJ, Tomáš Černěnko
Subject(s): Regional Geography, Government/Political systems, Politics and society
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: anti-system populism; slovak districts; spatial concentration;
Summary/Abstract: Recently, there has been increasing support in developed countries for anti-systemic populism. Anti-system parties tend to restrict democracy and bring negative effects to society as a whole. The causes of the growth of support for such parties are several. The current thesis lays in the geographical similarity for anti-system regions. Regions who voted for anti-system are predominantly economically underdeveloped and overlooked by central governments for a long time. This contribution focuses on the spatial concentration of the anti-system KotlebaĽSNS party in Slovakia. Using the method for local spatial autocorrelation (LISA) with election results from the last parliamentary elections in 2016, aggregated to the level of districts, the authors found out in which parts of Slovakia the anti-system party sympathizers is concentrated. Voters of Kotleba-ĽSNS are concentrated mainly in regions of Banská Bystrica and Žilina.

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