CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Kovalska, Kristina |
|---|---|
| Title | State of Democracy in Slovakia: Backsliding, Hollowing, or Neither? |
| Summary | Slovak Republic offers a curious case of discrepancy between the public perception of the state of democracy and the scores that are attributed to it by democracy indexes. While the country fares rather well in the indexes, the public dissatisfaction with democracy is the highest out of all European countries. This thesis investigates the gap by evaluating the levels of democratic backsliding and hollowing of democracy in the country, while also exploring other potential explanations through empirical analysis of the period between 2018 and 2023. It concludes that Slovakia is not experiencing democratic backsliding, and only a limited degree of the hollowing of democracy. Instead, what can best explain the gap between high democracy scores and public dissatisfaction with democracy, is a combination of halted prosecutions of newly uncovered corruption cases, intensified attacks on minorities, increased polarization, and political instability caused by numerous coalition crises. |
| Supervisor | Sitter, Nikolai |
| Department | School of Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/kovalska_kristina.pdf |
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