From Trivialized Neo-Nazis to Parliament : Explaining the Electoral Success of the Extreme Right Party ĽSNS in Slovakia

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Authors	VODA Petr KLUKNAVSKÁ Alena SPÁČ Peter
Year of publication	2022
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Problems of Post-Communism
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Social Studies
Citation
Web	článek na webu vydavatele
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2020.1869909
Keywords	extreme right; electoral support; Slovakia; ĽSNS; regression analysis
Attached files	From_Trivialized_Neo_Nazis_to_Parliament.pdf
Description	This paper analyzes factors facilitating the electoral success of the Slovak extreme-right party ĽSNS by examining contextual explanations of electoral support during in 2010–2016 national elections. Conducting regression analysis on aggregated data, we find that, during the 2010 and 2012 elections, the local presence of a Roma minority was important, and in the 2016 elections the party achieved success in more economically deprived micro-regions. These changes indicate that factors linked to perceived ethnic threat are insufficient to explain the electoral breakthrough of the party. We argue that the breakthrough was possible thanks to their increasingly anti-elite communication along with favorable contextual circumstances.
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