Slovakia’s Oversized Cabinet after the 2020 Parliamentary Elections: Barrier against Extremism Vol. II, or Protection of Its Own Stability?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.politologickycasopis.cz/en/archive/2020/3/" target="_blank" >https://www.politologickycasopis.cz/en/archive/2020/3/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/PC2020-3-388" target="_blank" >10.5817/PC2020-3-388</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Slovakia’s Oversized Cabinet after the 2020 Parliamentary Elections: Barrier against Extremism Vol. II, or Protection of Its Own Stability?

Original language description

This article deals with one of the major political consequences of parliamentary elections in every parliamentary regime – the process of government formation. It focuses on the formation of the coalition government following the 2020 parliamentary elections in Slovakia, in the context of both pre-election developments as well as the main challenges and appeals of contemporary politics in general – the rise of far-right political parties. Its aim is to identify the coalition strategies present- ed before the elections of political parties and movements that had a theoretical chance of being elected to Parliament. Special emphasis is placed on the definition by the other political parties and movements of the long-time ruling party Smer and the far-right party Our Slovakia. The analysis continues with the post-election government formation process, the classification of the estab- lished coalition, including the allocation of cabinet portfolios, assessment of the similarities and dif- ferences of coalition parties, and factors that could possibly cause both instability as well as stability. It concludes that the joint definition by the new ruling parties and movements of Smer and Our Slo- vakia will, at least for some time, serve as a unifying factor keeping the coalition together. However, the coalition’s stability will be under almost constant pressure coming from both relations between coalition parties and the possibility of internal conflicts within the coalition parties and movements. The article argues that the establishment of the surplus majority coalition might – besides the offi- cial justification for it – serve as a protection against government destabilization.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS 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

2020

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Politologický časopis - Czech Journal of Political Science

ISSN

12113247

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

27

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

27

Pages from-to

388-414

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85100495381