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Sunday, May 7th, 2023
Killing representative democracy? Party switching and MP’s replacements in the Polish parliament
Studies concerning the dynamics of party systems between parliamentary elections are usually based on legislative party switching analyses. This issue was considered and proved in some Western European case studies as well as in some comparative analyses dedicated to the parliaments in the consolidated democracies. But the personal structures of...
Friday, July 31st, 2020
European Union Agenda in Serbia’s Party Politics: A Clash between Rationality and Identity Politics
This article argues that “identity politics” determines party positions and political orientations towards the EU agenda in Serbian party politics. In its attempt to analyse the underlying reasons and legitimation strategies of the Serbian parties towards the EU agenda, the research employs a thematic content analysis of documents of eight...
Friday, February 26th, 2016
The System of Political Party Funding as a Sign of Weakly Institutionalized Party System in Slovakia
This text deals with the issues of the financing of the political parties in Slovakia. We are coming out of the assumption that the Slovak system of the political party funding is based on the multi-funding, but the contributions from the government budget will form the most dominant source of...
Friday, October 9th, 2015
Stable or not? Patterns of party system dynamics and the rise of the new political parties in the Czech Republic
The text analyses the stability and dynamics of the party system in the Czech Republic after 1989. After summarizing the theoretical discussion about the stability of the party politics, the author applies selected tools for measuring the party system stability within the Czech party system environment. Besides the stability of...
Tuesday, January 28th, 2014
Factors affecting the long-term success of new parliamentary parties: findings in a post-communist context
This article addresses a gap in the literature concerning the survivability of new political parties in existing parliamentary systems. It focuses on the particularities of post-communist party systems and considers the impact that the recent international financial and economic crisis has had on decreasing the legitimacy of the established parties...
