New Breakaway Parties in Slovakia: Exploring Intra-party Democracy Shifts

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/PC2024-2-145" target="_blank" >10.5817/PC2024-2-145</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

New Breakaway Parties in Slovakia: Exploring Intra-party Democracy Shifts

Original language description

Many new parties are electorally succeeding across European party systems, including in post-communist countries. This is especially true in Slovakia, where it is accompanied by another very specific phenomenon, which in our perspective defines recent parliamentary elections - the prevalence of new breakaway par-ties. These newly formed parties created by splitting from parliamentary parties are now competing alongside them in early parliamentary elections. The 2020-2023 period, in addition to seeing the fall of governments, and a general political crisis and instability, was also characterized by frequent party factionalism. During this period, turbulent development within SMER-SD, ĽSNS and OĽaNO translated into the formation of three new parties - HLAS-SD, Republika, and the Democrats, which represent our case studies. The aim of our paper is to analyse how these new breakaway parties differ from their original parties organizationally, in the pro-cesses associated with intra-party democracy (IPD). We empirically explore their leadership selection, candidate selection and membership policies. The existing data (based on the Populism and Political Parties Database) indicate that their three parent parties are highly personalized with low IPD. The findings of our com-parative analysis reveal that the new breakaway parties have incorporated more transparent approaches to intraparty processes compared to their parent parties. However, concerning candidate selection, they have not embraced greater inclu-siveness than the parties they originated from. Overall, despite a noticeable trend towards intra-party depersonalization, the opportunity for a broader membership base to participate in the decision-making process remains largely unrealized.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Politologický časopis

ISSN

1211-3247

e-ISSN

1805-9503

Volume of the periodical

2024

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

145-168

UT code for WoS article

001410320400004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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