Radical Populists on the Periphery? Spatial Analysis of Populist Radical Right Parties in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | This study presents an analysis of the populist radical right parties from the spatial analysis perspective of Czech and Slovak parliamentary elections in the period 2010-2020. The main method applied for classifying the electoral results was spatial autocorrelation. The regionalisation of the parties' support is measured to identify the specific regional clusters of votes. The global test (Moran’s I statistic), and local indicators of spatial association (a LISA statistic) and identification method of electoral support areas are used. The analysis proves that populist radical right parties in the Czech Republic and Slovakia are popular on the geographical periphery. Not only on the peripheries on the borders with other states (typically Poland) but also on the inner peripheries on the borders of regions. This party family has higher support from economic, cultural, and political peripheries too. The study concluded that some populist radical right parties in Slovakia (like People's Party Our Slovakia) from their beginning have concentrated support in the small peripherical area, then with higher success, their support zone is growing in peripherical areas and after that this parties could be popular also in the central parts of the state. It is important to study more these peripherical areas to understand the success of the populist radical right in Central and Eastern Europe. |
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