The Electoral Success Of Dominant Parties Representing the Hungarian Minority in Romania and Slovakia
The Electoral Success Of Dominant Parties Representing the Hungarian Minority in Romania and Slovakia

Summary/Abstract: The paper offers an institutional account of the electoral success of ethno-regionalist parties. Hence, it presents the preliminary results of a comprehensive project dealing with factors favoring the formation of ethno-regionalist parties and the determinants explaining their electoral, office-holding and policy success. The author focuses solely on the dominant parties claiming to represent the interests of Hungarian minorities in Romania and Slovakia. This study is meant to be a plausibility probe regarding a possible hypothesis for further research. The preliminary findings could help refine or amend the initial hypotheses in order to conduct a well-grounded, full-fledged analysis of all post-Communist countries bordering Hungary and featuring Hungarian minorities (Croatia, Romania, Serbia– Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine).

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