The Anti-System in The System: The Far Right in Slovakia
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https://doi.org/10.34135/sjps.240102Keywords:
Democracy, Accommodation, Far right, Extremism, Radicalism, Republika, SlovakiaAbstract
The study deals with the Slovak far-right movement known as Republika. The objective is to substantiate the theoretical concept of accommodation as it pertains to radical and anti-system political subjects within a liberal-democratic system. The research employs the original Far Right Index (FRIx) to analyse the ideological profiling of the Republika movement. The FRIx quantifies the theoretical concept of accommodation in a measurable form. Based on an in-depth political analysis of the positions and pronouncements of the Republika movement in the period 2021-2024, the study demonstrates how they present their political programme effectively without activating democracy’s defence mechanisms, while preserving their true ideological framework. The paper reveals that Republika demonstrates attributes of far-right ideology, but from both a normative and a public perspective, it is regarded as a conventional right-wing party with a populist narrative.
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