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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Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska, PO)
The Civic Platform (PO) calls itself a liberal conservative Christian democratic political party, and is a member of the European People’s Party in the European Parliament (Poland EPP 2011).
Action of Dissatisfied Citizens 2011, (Akce nespokojených občanů, ANO 2011)
ANO was founded by Czech billionaire Andrej Babiš as a reaction to unsatisfactorily political and economic developments in Czech politics. The main reason was the growing level of corruption and a series of scandals involving the centre-right government. Although the movement had at the beginning a leftist profile, during the 2013 election campaign the movement targeted centre-right middle class votes. It is very hard to categorize the manifesto on the left-right scale or even on the liberal–conservative one. From the content perspective, the manifesto is mainly focused on economical and corruption issues.
Most – Híd (Bridge, Most – Híd)
The official name of the party Most – Híd consists of the Slovak and Hungarian words for bridge. It was formed in 2009 by Béla Bugár and other politicians defecting from the Party of the Hungarian Coalition. Bugár served as a chairman of the SMK – MKP for almost ten years from 1998 to 2007. In 2007 he lost intra-party elections to Pál Csáky who represented the more radical platform of the party. After several conflicts with the party’s new leadership, Bugár left SMK – MKP and together with his followers and some intellectuals of Slovak nationality founded Most – Híd. In contrast to SMK – MKP, this new party was supposed to be a platform of cooperation for all citizens of the Slovak Republic regardless of their nationality. From its beginnings, the party was accused by some politicians of the right wing opposition to be the fifth column of the Direction – Social Democracy party. However when it became more probable that Most – Híd will succeed SMK as main representative of the Hungarian minority other right wing political parties changed their rhetoric.
Christian-Democratic Movement (Krestansko-demokraticke hnuti, KDH)
Christian-Democratic Movement was formed in the wake of the Velvet Revolution by dissidents and other elements of the Catholic anti-communist opposition in Slovakia.
Ordinary People (Obyčajní ľudia, OĽaNO)
The success of the centre-right political movement shows a deep fragmentation of Slovak centre-right wing spectra. The representatives of the movement come from very different fields; some of them were MPs elected for liberal oriented SaS for instance. Due to the fragmentation of centre-right government and general disappointment of centre-right electorate, the movement joined the Parliament. However, the manifesto is consisted of mixture of national culture coloured claims as well as liberally open statements.