What can Czech and Slovak Social Democratic Parties expect from Progressive rebranding? : A demand-side perspective through the clustering of WVS/EVS respondents

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://czechpolsci.eu/article/view/38825/33711" target="_blank" >https://czechpolsci.eu/article/view/38825/33711</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/PC2024-3-242" target="_blank" >10.5817/PC2024-3-242</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

What can Czech and Slovak Social Democratic Parties expect from Progressive rebranding? : A demand-side perspective through the clustering of WVS/EVS respondents

Original language description

In recent years, the left of the political spectrum in the Czech and Slovak party systems has undergone significant changes. The main anti-establishment party in Czechia, ANO, has shifted its economic programme to incorporate more inter-ventionist policies, while the main social-democratic party in Slovakia, Smer-SD, has progressively adopted more conservative social positions. These trends have coincided with a decline in voter support for the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) and Smer-SD in Slovakia, seemingly supporting the dealignment theory generally used to explain the decline of centre-left parties in Western Europe. Building on these premises, this article explores the first two layers of Mair’s conceptualisation of a political cleavage (social groups and their defining values) to assess the potential gains or losses that social democratic parties in the two countries might experience if they rebranded to emphasise left-liberal stances. This strategy has been observed to have benefited other social dem-ocratic parties in Western and Central Europe. By clustering value survey re-spondents along left-wing and progressive social values and by analysing these clusters’ members using logistic regression, the study suggests that while shift-ing to the left may attract new socio-demographic groups, adopting liberal left values might, for both parties, be electorally harmful in the short term.

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

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

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

31

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

34

Pages from-to

242-275

UT code for WoS article

001417095100002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105000241037