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@article{1596989,
author = {Rybář, Marek and Spáč, Peter},
article_location = {Thousand Oaks},
article_number = {3},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0888325419891222},
keywords = {political entrepreneur parties; socially rooted parties; party institutionalization; Slovakia; elections},
language = {eng},
issn = {0888-3254},
journal = {East European Politics and Societies : and Cultures},
title = {Social Origin Is No Destiny : Background, Institutionalization, and Electoral Performance of New Political Parties in Slovakia},
url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0888325419891222},
volume = {34},
year = {2020}
}
TY - JOUR
ID - 1596989
AU - Rybář, Marek - Spáč, Peter
PY - 2020
TI - Social Origin Is No Destiny : Background, Institutionalization, and Electoral Performance of New Political Parties in Slovakia
JF - East European Politics and Societies : and Cultures
VL - 34
IS - 3
SP - 637-662
EP - 637-662
PB - SAGE Publications
SN - 08883254
KW - political entrepreneur parties
KW - socially rooted parties
KW - party institutionalization
KW - Slovakia
KW - elections
UR - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0888325419891222
L2 - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0888325419891222
N2 - 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.
ER -
RYBÁŘ, Marek and 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, vol.~34, No~3, p.~637-662. ISSN~0888-3254. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0888325419891222.
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