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The main goal of this study is the analysis of two main extreme right political parties in Slovakia - Kotleba - Peoples Party Our Slovakia (L'SNS) and Slovak Togetherness - National Party (SP - NS) and to find their historical, personal and ideological interconnections, using the comparative method of electoral programs and mobilization strategies. It offers a new tool allowing researchers to better understand the ideology of L'SNS, the current most successful extreme right party in Slovakia, through four dimensions according to the relationship of the examined parties to nationalism, xenophobia, establishment and foreign affairs. Using the conceptual frameworks of Case Mudde (2000) and of experts on the extreme right in Slovakia (Mesežnikov - Gyárfášová 2016; Mikušovič 2007; Mikuš et al. 2016). The study focuses on the period of the participation of L'SNS s members in the political activities of SP - NS from 2005 till 2006. Primary attention is paid to programmatic strategies, mobilization issues of these parties to address the public, voters or supporters and to their similarities and changes. It is the first major attempt to analyze the ideological interconnections of these parties in the field of study.

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Kotleba - People's Party Our Slovakia, The Slovak Togetherness - National Party, Slovak Togetherness, extreme right, right-wing extremism, extreme right in Central Europe

Zoznam použitých skratiek

BBSK - Banskobystrický samosprávny kraj

HG - Hlinkové gardy

HNS - Hlas národnej stráže

MMF - Medzinárodný menový fond

MV SR - Ministerstvo vnútra Slovenskej republiky

NS - Naše Slovensko. Noviny politickej strany Mariana Kotlebu

NSS - Nové Slobodné Slovensko

L'SNS - L'udová strana Naše Slovensko

SL'S - Slovenská L'udová strana

SNP - Slovenské národné povstanie

SNS - Slovenská národná strana

SMK - Strana maďarskej koalície

SP - Slovenská pospolitosť

SP - NS - Slovenská pospolitosť - národná strana

Z.O.G. - Zionist Occupation Goverment

Úvod

Fenomén krajnej pravice, resp. výskum politického extrémizmu v prostredí slovenských parlamentných strán bol v minulosti prezentovaný odborníkmi najmä v spojitosti so Slovenskou národnou stranou (SNS) (Minkenberg 2017: 75; Mudde 2005: 197; Pytlas - Kossack 2014: 11; Smolík 2013, Mikuš - Gurňák 2012: 40). L'udová strana Naše Slovensko (L'SNS) je druhým straníckym subjektom v poradí, ktorému sa po volebnom úspechu v roku 2016 podarilo rozprúdiť nespočetné množstvo verejných debát...

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