Social Origin Is No Destiny : Background, Institutionalization,
and Electoral Performance of New Political Parties in Slovakia

J 2020

Social Origin Is No Destiny : Background, Institutionalization, and Electoral Performance of New Political Parties in Slovakia

RYBÁŘ, Marek a Peter SPÁČ

Základní údaje

Originální název

Social Origin Is No Destiny : Background, Institutionalization, and Electoral Performance of New Political Parties in Slovakia

Autoři

RYBÁŘ, Marek a Peter SPÁČ

Vydání

East European Politics and Societies : and Cultures, Thousand Oaks, SAGE Publications, 2020, 0888-3254

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50601 Political science

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 1.430

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14230/20:00114008

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

Klíčová slova anglicky

political entrepreneur parties; socially rooted parties; party institutionalization; Slovakia; elections

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 12. 8. 2020 15:29, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Anotace

V originále

The existing research suggests that socially rooted new political parties are more likely to be reelected to parliaments than parties emerging without links to preexisting social groups. It is argued that the two groups face different prospects of institutionalization: Rooted parties are more viable because their links to preexisting societal groups contribute to a higher sustainability of their electoral support and stronger institutionalization. We assess the link between the origin of parties, their level of institutionalization, and their electoral performance in the context of Slovakia, a new Eastern European democracy. We add to the existing state of knowledge in three ways. First, we empirically assess the link between the social origin of parties and their level of institutionalization. We also provide rich empirical material on the intraparty processes resulting in various levels of institutionalization. Subsequently, we assess whether rooted parties record better electoral performance than political entrepreneur parties. Second, we provide some illustration of the fact that agential factors, especially the decisions and activities related to leadership contestation, directly impact both party institutionalization and electoral performance. Third, we show that developing the links to a sociostructurally well-defined electorate may be a viable strategy to secure a parliamentary relevance for a prolonged period of time for some political entrepreneurs. Our findings suggest that parties with different levels of institutionalization are able to secure reelection, and that their electoral performance is not directly linked to their social origins.

Návaznosti

GA17-02226S, projekt VaV

Název: Političtí podnikatelé: Česká republika v komparativní perspektivě

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Političtí podnikatelé: Česká republika v komparativní perspektivě

GA18-15700S, projekt VaV

Název: Životopisy a výkon politiků v České republice a na Slovensku

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Biography and the Performance of Politicians in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Přiložené soubory

Rybar_Spac_Social_origin_is_no_destiny.pdf

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Citovat

RYBÁŘ, Marek a Peter SPÁČ. Social Origin Is No Destiny : Background, Institutionalization, and Electoral Performance of New Political Parties in Slovakia. East European Politics and Societies : and Cultures. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2020, roč. 34, č. 3, s. 637-662. ISSN 0888-3254. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325419891222.

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RYBÁŘ, Marek a Peter SPÁČ. Social Origin Is No Destiny : Background, Institutionalization, and Electoral Performance of New Political Parties in Slovakia. \textit{East European Politics and Societies : and Cultures}. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2020, roč.~34, č.~3, s.~637-662. ISSN~0888-3254. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325419891222.

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