Return of Illiberalism : The Results of the 2023 General Election in Slovakia
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Politologický časopis |
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| Web | article - open access |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/PC2024-2-59 |
| Keywords | Slovakia; elections; voting behaviour; illiberalism; populism |
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| Description | After a general overview of the context of the 2023 general election in Slova-kia, the article provides a detailed analysis of the electoral results and support for political parties. Using both aggregate and individual level data, we show that the results were inuenced by a combination of long-term features den-ing electoral support and voting behaviour in Slovakia and a more recent trend including weaker ideological attachment and the increased importance of leadership personality for political party preference. Also, it seems that the illib-eral mobilization may be traced in the dynamic of electoral shifts in the context of dierent behaviour of various societal groups. Moreover, the return of illib-eral actors to power in Slovakia seems to have been characterized by a surge of votes for conservative or populist left-wing forces in the larger Slovak cities. Although this is not reected in the turnout, at the individual level we can as-sume that liberal voters turned out in smaller numbers, while Smer voters may have been more mobilized, or some voters may have switched from other po-pulist parties such as OĽaNO. |
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