Party of the Periphery in the City of the Country’s Center: The Case of the Smer–Social Democracy in Bratislava during Slovakian Parliamentary Elections
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https://doi.org/10.12775/HiP.2025.030Keywords
social democracy, Slovakia, Smer, BratislavaAbstract
The text is devoted to the electoral strongholds of the party Smer–Social Democracy in the Slovak capital. The analyzed party is atypical, as it is strongly anti-establishment and populist left-wing, rarely described in the literature. The research results indicated that a common feature of all Bratislava districts with an overrepresentation of left-wing support in the period in question is their peripheral, outlying location in relation to the capital’s central districts and an above-standard share of 1970s housing.
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