The recent global wave of populist governments, which culminated in Donald Trump's
victory in 2016, has convinced many observers that populism is a grave threat to democracy …

This article tests if radical right populist (RRP) parties draw support from voters with non-
mainstream, illiberal attitudes. This follows from assumptions that these parties have …

What factors influence governments' social policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis in East-
Central Europe? We attempt to answer this question by analysing the social policy …

This paper focuses on the migration crisis from the perspective of Slovakia while examining
the impact of the crisis on the last parliamentary elections in 2016. The migration/refugee …

In recent years Slovakia witnessed a dynamic development with crucial consequences for its
domestic politics. Vast civic mobilization, the emergence of new parties and decline of a long …

This contribution is a complex analysis of the geographic voting patterns in the 2020 Slovak
parliamentary election using methods such as Geographically Weighted Regression …

It is often said that we live in a time of crisis for social democracy. Many of the West
European centre-left parties that seemed the natural parties of government in the second …

This paper analyzes factors facilitating the electoral success of the Slovak extreme-right
party ĽSNS by examining contextual explanations of electoral support during in 2010–2016 …

The article examines discursive framing of Muslims during the 2020 Slovak parliamentary
campaign, putting it in the broader context of the four-year period since the previous 2016 …

On the crossroads between preserving a nationalist rhetoric and adding ways in which it can
offer an alternative to mainstream politics, the Slovak Radical Right has transformed itself …