<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The last election in the Slovak and Czech Republic was special. It not only took place before the official electoral period (pre-elections), but new political parties were “again” successful. The article focuses not only on both elections in the last two years in a comparative perspective, but it analyses the opportunity structure of success as well, including types of new political parties (according to Lucardie). The article seeks to answer the question: why are new political parties electorally successful, able to break into parliament and even become part of a coalition government? We assume that the emergence and success of new political parties in both countries relied on the ability to promote “old” ideas in a new fashion, colloquially referred to as “new suits” or “old” ideological flows in new breeze.</p></abstract>

The last election in the Slovak and Czech Republic was special. It not only took place before the official electoral period (pre-elections), but new political parties were “again” successful. The article focuses not only on both elections in the last two years in a comparative perspective, but it analyses the opportunity structure of success as well, including types of new political parties (according to Lucardie). The article seeks to answer the question: why are new political parties electorally successful, able to break into parliament and even become part of a coalition government? We assume that the emergence and success of new political parties in both countries relied on the ability to promote “old” ideas in a new fashion, colloquially referred to as “new suits” or “old” ideological flows in new breeze.

Newcomers in Politics? The Success of New Political Parties in the Slovak and Czech Republic after 2010?

University of St. Cyril and Methodius, Faculty of Social Sciences (Slovakia)

Baltic Journal of Law & Politics

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The last election in the Slovak and Czech Republic was special. It not only took place before the official electoral period (pre-elections), but new political...

Newcomers in Politics? The Success of New Political Parties in the Slovak and Czech Republic after 2010?

Published Online: Feb 29, 2016

Page range: 91 - 111

Received: Sep 25, 2015

Accepted: Dec 28, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bjlp-2015-0020

Keywords
New political parties, prophetic parties, purifiers parties, prolocutors parties

© 2015 Viera Žúborová, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Newcomers in Politics? The Success of New Political Parties in the Slovak and Czech Republic after 2010?

Published Online: Feb 29, 2016

Page range: 91 - 111

Received: Sep 25, 2015

Accepted: Dec 28, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bjlp-2015-0020

KeywordsNew political parties, prophetic parties, purifiers parties, prolocutors parties

© 2015 Viera Žúborová, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
New political parties, prophetic parties, purifiers parties, prolocutors parties