Public Opinion and Party Choice in Slovakia and the Czech Republic

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6316795
AutoresKevin Deegan‐krause (0000-0001-7526-6530, autor de correspondencia), Kevin Deegan Krause
Año2000
Volumen6
Número1
Páginas23-46
Fecha de publicación2000-01-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaParty Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1354-0688 • E-ISSN: 1460-3683
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1354068800006001002
OpenAlexW2163908014
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas14

How do voters' political opinions shape the way they think about political parties? In the left-right socio-economic competition of advanced democracies the answer to this question is often taken for granted. For this reason many approaches to the study of parties are not easily applicable to countries where different issues dominate political debate. This paper offers an alternative. It provides a method for identifying differences in the weight that voters place on particular issues when they evaluate political parties, using the cases of Slovakia and the Czech Republic to show how these differences shape both electoral outcomes and the overall stability of democracy. The weight that Slovakia's voters place on national and democracy issues when evaluating parties contrasts sharply with the more familiar left-right socioeconomic judgements made by Czech voters. This difference helps to explain the weakness of democratic institutions in Slovakia in comparison to those of the Czech Republic

Competition (biology · Czech · Democracy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public opinion · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Social Media and Politics

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