Nationalism and Democratisation: Politics of Slovakia and Slovenia: Politics of Slovakia and Slovenia by Erika Harris

Author:Erika Harris [Harris, Erika]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Democracy, Political Ideologies, Social Science, Political Science, Nationalism & Patriotism, Sociology, General
ISBN: 9781351746953
Google: TrpHDwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 38136710
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-01-18T00:00:00+00:00

Seeking a Consensus: The 1998 Elections and New Prospects for Democracy

The general elections 25-26 September 1998 and the victory of political parties claiming unequivocal commitment to liberal democracy, economic transformation and closer ties with the West, instead of their predecessors’ at best ambivalent attitude to those goals signalled a turning point in the direction of Slovakia’s transition to democracy. As there is no historical or political inevitability for a transition to democracy to actually become one, these elections do not spell a definite consolidation of democracy in Slovakia, but they offer a reasonable chance for a change. As such the post-1998 period can be viewed as the beginning of the ‘third transition’ in Slovakia (1990-1993 as the first and 1994-1998 as the second attempt). The account of Slovak political and national development may end with analysis of this latest transition in this book, but the Slovak search for secure nationhood and democracy has some way to go yet.

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