Democratic backsliding in Central Europe has so far been most acute in Hungary and
Poland, states once considered frontrunners in democratisation. In this paper, we explore to …

Democratic backsliding, a term commonly used to describe the recent changes in politics in
Central and Eastern Europe, is most profoundly related to the emergence and electoral …

Why do some parties live fast and die young, but other endure? And why are some party
systems more stable than others? Based on a blend of data derived from both qualitative …

This is the first book-length account of populism in the Visegrád Four (V4) countries—Czech
Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia—for the first 30 years of multi-party competition …

Business-firm parties founded on the initiative of a political entrepreneur are a phenomenon
of growing importance in contemporary party politics. In practice, these are either …

When the popularity of the populist radical right increases, questions arise. Where are these
parties successful? Does the geographic distribution of their support change along with …

The Will of the People: Populism and Citizen Participation in Latin America argues that while
populist leaders typically claim to speak'in the name of the people', they rarely allow the …

This paper draws on Laclau's theory of discourse, hegemony, and populism to analyse
competing forms of populism in the Czech Republic within the discursive context of 'post …

The party system of the Czech Republic has traditionally been considered as a case of
exceptional stability in the region of East-Central Europe. It was also almost a perfect …

This article examines the territorialization of party replacement in the Czech Republic
between 2010 and 2017. Using spatial analytical techniques, we found that despite the …