A ROSE BY ANOTHER NAME WOULD SMELL THE SAME: HIDDEN POTENTIAL OF ANTISYSTEM PARTIES IN SLOVAKIA?
A ROSE BY ANOTHER NAME WOULD SMELL THE SAME: HIDDEN POTENTIAL OF ANTISYSTEM PARTIES IN SLOVAKIA?

Author(s): Tomáš Černěnko, Dana Kubenkova
Subject(s): Government/Political systems, Electoral systems, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: anti-system political parties; elections; political attitudes;
Summary/Abstract: This article aims to identify voter attitudes, based on the results of the 2020 parliamentary elections, towards European integration, religious attitudes in politics, universal left-right integration, the rights of ethnic minorities, the position between cosmopolitan and national sentiments, and political decentralization in favour of regions at the district level of Slovakia, while considering factors that affect voter's selection. In the first step, we calculated the position of the district through the results of individual political parties (district level) in the elections to the National Council of the Slovak Republic in 2020 and data from the 2019 Chapel Hill expert survey. In the second step, we used these results as dependent variables for regression analysis, examining their dependence on the variables average wage, unemployment rate, ethnic composition, and time availability of the district's seat from the regional centre and Bratislava (capital). A retrospective analysis of voter attitudes at individual districts has shown that concerns about possible covert support for anti-system parties are warranted. “Negative” results, especially on religious principles in politics, ethnic minority rights, inclination to national values, and centralized power, show that if expectations from standard (or liberal democratic) parties are not met, there is a risk of voters diverting to radical parties.

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