Abstrakt
Císař and Navrátil focus on the emergence of radical right parties in the Czech Republic, with a focus on the period of migrant crisis (2015 and after). It is argued that the period of migrant crisis offers a unique opportunity to investigate possible transformations of radical right organizations, since the crisis forms the most likely case of the transformation of extra-parliamentary organizations into parties.
However, unlike Hungary, the Czech case presents a different path to the mobilization of radical right parties, as its radical right parties are not based on any movement in the country. A number of important radical right parties seem to have originated in the sector of private business rather than from the mobilization of social movements.
In this respect, the Czech case enriches our understanding of the multiple paths radical right party mobilization has taken in Eastern Europe.