What can Czech and Slovak Social Democratic parties expect from a rebranding towards more progressive values? A demand-side analysis through the clustering of WVS/EVS respondents.

MORESCHI, Nevio. What can Czech and Slovak Social Democratic parties expect from a rebranding towards more progressive values? A demand-side analysis through the clustering of WVS/EVS respondents. In 30th Conference of the Council for European Studies. 2024.

Basic information

• Original name: What can Czech and Slovak Social Democratic parties expect from a rebranding towards more progressive values? A demand-side analysis through the clustering of WVS/EVS respondents.
• Authors: MORESCHI, Nevio.
• Edition: 30th Conference of the Council for European Studies, 2024.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: 50601 Political science
• Country of publisher: France
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• Keywords in English: Demand-side Politics; Left-Wing Parties; CEE Party Systems; Clustering Analysis
• Tags: International impact

Abstract

In recent years, the left side of the political spectrum of the Czech and Slovak Party Systems has undergone a series of changes. In Czechia, the main anti-establishment party, ANO, has shifted its economic program to integrate more interventionist policies, while in Slovakia, the main social-democratic party, SMER, continued moving towards more conservative social stances. The result was the CSSD losing voters in Czechia and the opening of a space for a new, more moderate left-wing party in Slovakia, which Hlas soon occupied. By exploring the first two layers of Maier’s conceptualisation of a political cleavage (societal attitudes and socio-demographic base) in the present paper will be hypothesised the possibility for more socially liberal and economically left-wing parties to emerge in the two countries or whether the existing Social Democratic ones could be incentivised to re-brand themselves and moving closer to the “New Left” ideological lines.