The webpage focuses on political parties and their perception of nationalism and national identity.  Firstly, the webpage contains a profile of each party in a national context based on basic facts, well known officials, and their electoral gains in national and European elections. Secondly, it gives an analytical insight into parties’ perceptions of national identity and nationalism. The parties are categorised according to mentions of related to national identity issues in election manifestos. These issues cover minorities, national myths, European integration, national sovereignty, integration of immigrants and related categories.

Selected case studies show parties’ "real politics" and strategies using national identity to politicise certain policies, such as using national mythologies in election campaigns. Case studies focus on up to three specific national identity issues for each country. They cover opposite positions of different parties to show different strategies and policies used to attract voters. For this purpose, visual (e.g. billboards) and text (e.g. given speeches) material was analyzed.

Acknowlegment

The Visegrad parties' profiles from 2006 - 2010 are based on a scholarly study published at Masaryk University: Černoch  Filip,  Husák  Jan,  Schütz  Ondrej,  Vít  Michal  (2011):  Political  parties  and nationalism  in  Visegrad  countries.  Brno:  Masarykova  univerzita,  Mezinárodní politologický ústav, Monography servies 46, 2011; and on the scholarly paper Husák Jan, Schütz Ondrej, Vít Michal (2012): National identity of the Political parties in Visegrad  region  and  their  European  dimension,  Journal  on  European  Integration  and Federalism, Science Po, Nice.