Between Conflict and Cooperation : Electoral Strategies of Ethnic Parties
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08883254241235628" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08883254241235628</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08883254241235628" target="_blank" >10.1177/08883254241235628</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Between Conflict and Cooperation : Electoral Strategies of Ethnic Parties
Original language description
The paper analyses the impact of local demography on the electoral strategies of ethnic political parties. We focus on Hungarian parties in Slovakia and their tactics of fielding candidates in the 2014 and 2018 mayoral elections in 4,461 municipalities with competitive elections. We find that local demography is an essential explanatory factor concerning the strategies of ethnic parties. Our results show that in towns where an ethnic minority predominates, ethnic parties are more likely to challenge each other in elections. On the other hand, we find only little support for the split demography hypothesis that ethnic parties will cooperate in such an environment. Although Hungarian parties form alliances in these municipalities, their occurrence is not different than in towns where the same ethnic group dominates the local population. Finally, we observe that in areas where Hungarians are a numerical minority, inter-ethnic alliances are formed, but only by the more moderate ethnic party. In general, the paper shows that the ethnic composition of municipalities can provide incentives to avoid ethnic outbidding as well as to enhance intra-ethnic rivalry.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures
ISSN
0888-3254
e-ISSN
1533-8371
Volume of the periodical
39
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
25
Pages from-to
262-286
UT code for WoS article
001215194700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85192353103