The social background of the extreme right in the Czech Republic

This article examines the parties of the extreme right with an accent on th e Czech extreme right wing party (SPR-RSC). Using basic theories and empiri cal evidence which deal with the electoral success of parties of the extrem e right we reproduced a basic profile of their voters, then, examined the s ituation of Czech politics we performed some empirical analyses to test the validity of the theories of the extreme right in the CR. Our findings show that the social background of republican voters does not significantly dif fer from the social background of similar parties in other European countri es. We also found possible explanations for the electoral failure of SPR-RS C in the elections to the Chamber of deputies in June 1998. social insecuri ty and rising unemployment which may have led a number of supporters of SPR -RSC to vote for parties of the left. In 1998 SPR-RSC also failed in the mo bilisation of non-voters and first-time-voters.