New Parties in Political Markets of Central and Eastern Europe in the Years 1991-2018 – a Comparative Perspective

Marzena Cichosz

Abstract


The article presents the analysis of selected aspects of the activity of new parties in ten countries of Central and Eastern Europe in the period from 1991 to 2018. The author focuses primarily on the support that the newcomers garnered in their first elections to the lower chambers of national parliaments. The election results are treated as indicators as to the openness of political markets. Furthermore, the author examines the number and scale of new entities that gained parliamentary representation.


Keywords


new parties; Central and Eastern Europe; electoral and parliamentary market

Full Text:

PDF

References


Pettai V., Th Parliamentary Elections in Estonia, March 2003, “Electoral Studies” 2004, Vol. 23(4).

Sikk A., How Unstable? Volatility and the Genuinely New Parties in Eastern Europe, 2005, http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/13033/1/13033.pdf [access: 12.01.2019].

Sikk A., Newness as a Winning Formula for New Political Parties 2012, http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/20017/1/20017.pdf [access: 12.01.2019].

Tavits M., Party System Change: Testing a Model of New Party Entry, “Party Politics” 2006, Vol. 12(1).

Tavits M., Party System in the Making: the Emergence and Success of New Parties in New Democracies, “British Journal of Political Science” 2007, Vol. 38(1).




DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/bc.2018.3.67-74
Date of publication: 2019-07-15 10:25:43
Date of submission: 2019-02-11 20:24:30


Statistics


Total abstract view - 840
Downloads (from 2020-06-17) - PDF - 484

Indicators



Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Copyright (c) 2019

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.