Development of new party support in post-communist Europe and the effect of the 2008 economic crisis

2025/04/03 by Lukáš Linek, Michael Škvrňák · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Populism, Right-Wing Movements #Electoral Systems and Political Participation #European Union Policy and Governance

paper · doi:10.1080/21599165.2025.2513870

openalex publication_date 2025/04/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/14

Abstract

New parties in post-communist EU countries have been gaining large support, averaging over 16 percent of the vote. We distinguish between genuinely and partially new parties, finding that partially new parties lose support over time while genuinely new ones gain it. The 2008 economic crisis had varying effects based on pre-existing party system stability. In stable systems, new party support was weak until 2008, then jumped significantly. In unstable systems, new parties maintained high support throughout the transformation period, with the crisis having no additional impact. This analysis uses novel dataset of new parties from 11 post-communist EU member states.

Citations

• The electoral consequences of the financial and economic crisis in Europe
• Corruption and Electoral Support for New Political Parties in Central and Eastern Europe
• Party Systems in the Making: The Emergence and Success of New Parties in New Democracies

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