Cleavages, Protest or Voting for Hope? The Rise of Centrist Populist Parties in the Czech Republic

Havlík, Vlastimil; Voda, Petr

doi:10.1111/spsr.12299

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“…New populist parties have entered the parliament: Public Affairs (VV) and the 'newer' parties in the elections of 2013; Action of Dissatisfied Voters (ANO 2011) and Dawn of New Democracy (Úsvit), later transformed into Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) (Haughton & Deegan-Krause, 2015;Maškarinec, 2017;Maškarinec, 2019). While ANO 2011 and VV could be labelled as 'populists of the political centre' (Havlík & Voda, 2018), the Úsvit party that was re-established under its founder Tomio Okamura as Freedom and Direct Democracy is a typical right-wing populist movement. The party is a member of the Identity and Democracy faction in the European parliament, founded by Marine le Pen, along with other populist parties such as Lega, whose leader is Matteo Salvini, Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) and Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (FPÖ).…”

Section: The Decline Of the Traditional Left In Europe: The Czech Conmentioning

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Who are the voters and where are they? Using spatial statistics to analyse voting patterns in the parliamentary elections of the Czech Republic

2020

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The mapping of election results has long been a popular topic among cartographers, journalists, data scientists and infographic authors. However, their work usually concludes with simple visualizations of a single election, and in most cases only the winning party is represented. Can we tell the story of a political party over two decades via maps? What were the reasons for the rise and fall of such party; in our case the Czech Social Democrats? Moreover, how were the changes in voting patterns spatially distributed and manifested? With our paper, we explore voting patterns as well as the voting history of specific parties related to the fate of Social Democrats in the Czech Republic in several national elections from 2006 to 2017. We would like to invite other political scientists to explore the election results in their countries, not just over time, but also in space, and ideally via maps.

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Section: The Decline Of the Traditional Left In Europe: The Czech Conmentioning

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Who are the voters and where are they? Using spatial statistics to analyse voting patterns in the parliamentary elections of the Czech Republic

2020

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“…The Czech political context differs from the Hungarian one. ANO has a much less dominant position than Fidesz, and the level of democratic backsliding is much lower, not least because the country lacks a powerful narrative of Czech nationalism (Hanley and Vachudova 2018, 278) or the language of cultural or political exceptionalism (Brusis 2016;Havlík and Hloušek 2021;Havlík and Voda 2018). ANO portrays itself a nonideological citizens' movement of practical "doers" (Hanley and Vachudova 2018, 281), with Babiš vowing to run the country like a successful firm (Dostál and Nič 2018, 2).…”

Section: Brexit and Political Contexts In The Czech Republic And Hungarymentioning

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Exploitation Opportunities for Distant Crises: Political Framings of Brexit in the Czech Republic and Hungary

Meislová

Szent‐Iványi

2021

Problems of Post-Communism

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Brexit has been a major crisis facing the European integration process. The paper examines how Brexit was framed and exploited by two EU member state governments, Czechia and Hungary. We conceptualize Brexit as a "distant crisis" for these two countries: although it is likely to have significant impacts, these are uncertain and not immediate. Building on the crisis-framing literature, we apply frame analysis to examine governmental rhetoric and find that both governments have instrumentalized Brexit for internal purposes by pragmatically adapting their discursive positions on it to fit their political calculus on both domestic and European issues.

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“…At the same time, support for these new parties was only weakly associated with traditional structural factors (especially the socioeconomic cleavage) that had shaped Czech party politics since the beginning of the 1990. According to Havlík and Voda (2018), especially the electoral success of both the VV and the ANO2011 indicated a shift from class voting to non-ideological voting and perception of politics, bringing forward the competency of centrist populist parties to solve the most important issues, together with general dissatisfaction with established parties (cf. Maškarinec and Bláha, 2014: 717–721).…”

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Crossing the left-right party divide? Understanding the electoral success of the Czech Pirate Party in the 2017 parliamentary elections

Maškarinec

2020

Politics

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In the 2017 Czech parliamentary election, the Czech Pirate Party (Pirates) gained 10.79% of the votes – an unprecedented success, compared to most of the pirate parties across Europe. However, as their electoral gain varies widely across the Czech Republic’s territory, this article analyses all (more than 6000) Czech municipalities in the elections of 2010, 2013, and 2017 to explain this variation. Overall, the success of the Pirates was driven especially by obtaining much more support in larger municipalities with younger populations (although not only those aged 18–24 but also older ones), lower unemployment, higher turnout, and lower support for leftist parties. Thus, from a spatial perspective, the patterns of Pirate voting largely resembled long-term spatial support for Czech rightist parties and we can conclude that the Pirates made considerable inroads to regions which had historically been strongholds of the Civic Democratic Party, as the former main party of the right, but also strongholds of minor right-wing (‘liberal centre’) parties of the 1990s and early 2000s. Success of the Pirates thus was based especially on votes from municipalities located in more developed areas, where the Pirates received many more votes than in structurally disadvantaged regions.

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Cleavages, Protest or Voting for Hope? The Rise of Centrist Populist Parties in the Czech Republic

Cited by 57 publications

References 52 publications

Who are the voters and where are they? Using spatial statistics to analyse voting patterns in the parliamentary elections of the Czech Republic

Who are the voters and where are they? Using spatial statistics to analyse voting patterns in the parliamentary elections of the Czech Republic

Exploitation Opportunities for Distant Crises: Political Framings of Brexit in the Czech Republic and Hungary

Crossing the left-right party divide? Understanding the electoral success of the Czech Pirate Party in the 2017 parliamentary elections

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