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Czech Stalemate? The Role of Party Organization for the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia since 2010

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2020

Petar Bankov
Petar Bankov*
Affiliation:
Department of Politics, School of Social and Political Sciences, Room 401, Adam Smith Building, University of Glasgow, GlasgowG12 8RT, UK. Email: petar.bankov@glasgow.ac.uk
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Abstract

Almost three decades after the regime change in Central and Eastern Europe, some of the political parties that were successors of the communists continue to enjoy important electoral support. This article makes an attempt to understand why this happens and focuses on the role of the party organization. It includes a qualitative analysis on the typical case of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) based on a series of semi-structured interviews with party cadres and independent researchers. These interviews reveal that the stable territorial distribution of their performance amidst significant electoral volatility since 2010 highlights an organizational impasse within the party.

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European Review , Volume 28 , Issue 5 , October 2020 , pp. 826 - 841
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© Academia Europaea 2020

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