Working with data
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.
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Communist party of Bohemia and Moravia (Komunistická strana Čech a Moravy, KSČM)
Since the regime changed to democracy there has been an unwritten agreement between other political parties in the Czech Republic about excluding KSČM from high level policy-decision processes; however in the real political life there are many contacts and KSČM has already become a legitimate part of the political system in the Czech Republic. Moreover, in the last decade Social democratic party in particular has relied on silent support from KSČM on some decisions against right wing political solutions or to support some leftist decisions which could not get support from other mostly centrist or right parliamentary parties.
Greens (Listenvereinigung Bündnis 90/Grüne-Bürger-Innenbewegungen/Die Grünen - Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
The party joined the German parliament in the early 1980s as a result of the 1968 “cultural revolution”.
Alliance of the Democratic Left (Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej, SLD)
Alliance of the Democratic Left was officially established in May 1999.
Politics can be different (Lehet Más a Politika, LMP)
Politics can be different is a relatively new party in Hungarian politics which is partly the by-product of the crisis of confidence in politics and political parties after the election in 2006.
Hungarian Socialist Party (Magyar Szocialista Párt, MSzP)
Hungarian Socialist Party was established in 1989 formally as a completely new party in the wake of the new democratic history of Hungarian politics.