![]() Both events were also a certain momentum for those active in independent initiatives in Bohemia. The author elaborates on the political development in Slovakia at the end of the 1980s, namely in 1989, which was crucially influenced by a document entitled Bratislava nahlas (Bratislava/Aloud) published by a group of Bratislava‑based environmentalists in 1987, and the so‑called Candlelight Demonstration, which demanded that freedom of religion be respected, organised by the so‑called Christian dissent activists in Bratislava on 25 March 1988. ![]() Along these cleav-ages five or six main, geographically identified, seemingly solid political blocks can be defined. The party preferences indicate that the division and stratifica-tion of the Slovak society are still determined by the classic cultural (ethnic and religious) and centre-periphery (urban-rural and West-East) cleavages. The classic cleavages have proved to be durable in this period. It still does not fit the Western European patterns. A significant change of the party structure of Slovakia has undergone since 1992. Due to the characteristics of the electoral system the election results clearly reflect the spatial embeddedness of the parties. ![]() Post-socialist Slovakia's elections show that some of the regional and social cleavages (re)emerged immediately after the change of regime and have remained stable in the last twenty years. It presents how enduring and strong are the traditional cleavages and those connected to the change of regime. The aim of this study is to identify the main cleavages in the Slovak society through the analysis of the spatially solid voter base of the parties. Regional and social cleavages in the Slovak elections after the change of the regime The article gives an overview on the regional features of voting behaviour in post-socialist Slovakia.
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