The rise of new populist political parties in Czech parliamentary elections between 2010 and 2017: the geography of party replacement

Maškarinec, Pavel

doi:10.1080/15387216.2019.1691928

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“…This is the most common use of such analysis (e.g. Maškarinec, 2019;Shin & Agnew, 2007). However, this tool should be used to analyse not only the electoral results, but also such derived variables as the differences in share of the votes, sociodemographic variables and, most importantly, it should be used to analyse further the residual values saved from the OLS (Bernard et al, 2014), the probit model (Medeiros et al, 2019), the HLM and the GWR model.…”

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“…However, since the elections of 2010, the party system has changed dramatically. 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.…”

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“…Although there have been studies which employed various GIS methods (e.g. Bernard et al, 2014;Darmofal, 2008;Mansley & Demšar, 2015;Maškarinec, 2017;Maškarinec, 2019;Medeiros et al, 2019;Shin & Agnew, 2007), complex spatial analysis of elections is still rare. With our paper, we would like to present a means by which maps, using GIScience with its geospatial analytics, as well as political science, can be used to explore voting patterns as well as the voting history of specific parties in several national elections from 2006 to 2017.…”

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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

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

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“…In contrast to the four traditional parties, analysis of voting patterns of new parties which entered the Czech parliament after the 2010 election showed that, with the exception of the Tradition, Responsibility, Prosperity 09 party (TOP09), which succeeded in the 2010 election and whose electorate considerably overlaps with those of traditional rightist parties, spatial support for other new parties was relatively weakly rooted in geography as its constituency was relatively indistinct (in the case of the Public Affairs party (VV), the Dawn of Direct Democracy (Dawn) or the Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD)), or significantly changed between elections (the ANO2011) (cf. Havlík and Voda, 2016: 129–135; Maškarinec, 2019: 528–534).…”

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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

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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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“…Source: Czech Statistical Office, Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic (2019), author's research.Labem Region (Most 0.144, Louny 0.156, Chomutov 0.164 and Teplice 0.171), the Plzeň Region (Tachov 0.161) and the Karlovy Vary Region (Sokolov 0.190).This group of districts is completed by couple from Moravia -Bruntál (0.151, Moravian-Silesian Region) and Znojmo (0.168, South Moravian Region). This group of districts is characterized by a relatively high unemployment rate and relatively low wages, with support for left-wing, far-left or far-right parties(Havlík and Voda 2016;Maškarinec 2017Maškarinec , 2019. In Slovakia, the districts with the lowest values are located in the northwestern corner of the country in the Žilina Region (Kysucké Nové Mesto, Čadca and Bytča) typical of long-term support for the values of egalitarianism, etatism and nationalism(Plešivčák 2011;Madleňák 2012).…”

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Are the Czech or Slovak regions “closer to Europe”? Pro-Europeanness from a subnational perspective

Plešivčák¹

2020

Auc Geographica

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Based on the 2003-2019 electoral data, this article evaluates the level of pro-Europeanness in Czechia and Slovakia at the regional and sub-regional levels during and after their EU accession period. The TOPSIS multi-criteria evaluation method and cluster analysis were used to quantify the pro-European levels and to create the subsequent categories of territorial units. The results show support for the ideas of European integration primarily in large urban regions (Prague, Brno, Bratislava, Košice), territorial units with a higher concentration of ethnic minorities, larger scale agricultural activities (southwestern Slovakia), and a high degree of religiosity (northeastern Slovakia). The low level of pro-Europeanness was predominant in the less developed northwestern Czechia and parts of Moravia. In Slovakia, the Eurosceptic regions were mostly located in the northwest, where the values of statism, egalitarianism and nationalism have a strong tradition. This approach can be used to identify areas of weak support for the EU project at a spatially disaggregated level in other EU countries.

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The rise of new populist political parties in Czech parliamentary elections between 2010 and 2017: the geography of party replacement

Cited by 30 publications

References 49 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

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

Are the Czech or Slovak regions “closer to Europe”? Pro-Europeanness from a subnational perspective

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