Multiple Winning Formulae? Far Right Voters and Parties in Eastern Europe

Djordje Stefanovic and Geoffrey Evans

Europe-Asia Studies, 2019, vol. 71, issue 9, 1443-1473

Abstract: Can theories explaining far right voting in Western Europe be extended to post-communist Eastern Europe? We address this question with a comparative demand-side analysis of far right parties and their voters in four post-communist countries: Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, and Slovakia. Our findings indicate the emergence of two distinct types of far right party. While the Latvian and Lithuanian far right resemble the new radical right (NRR) model, the Bulgarian far right comes closer to the welfare chauvinist ideal type. The far right mobilised anti-Semitic voters in Latvia, Slovakia and Bulgaria. In all four cases, the far right was especially successful in capturing the votes of ethnic majority members who are the most opposed to their country’s formerly dominant ethnic group.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2019.1653447

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