Recent scholarship on parties and foreign policy argues that foreign policy preferences seem to be split along the same lines as the general policy disputes. We use spatial modeling to analyze whether this is indeed the case. Drawing on the unique complete sample of all votes in the Slovakia's National Council from 2002 through 2019, our results suggest that the split over foreign policy is much smaller than the general policy divide. Contrary to expectations, this split does not follow the left–right distinction. The results suggest that the government–opposition split remains in the foreign policy as well.

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外交政策中政党政治的维度：斯洛伐克国民议会的空间模型

最近关于政党和外交政策的学术研究认为，外交政策偏好似乎与一般政策争议的分歧相同。我们使用空间建模来分析是否确实如此。根据 2002 年至 2019 年斯洛伐克国民议会所有选票的独特完整样本，我们的结果表明，外交政策分歧远小于总体政策分歧。与预期相反，这种分裂并不遵循左右区分。结果表明，政府与反对派的分裂仍然存在于外交政策中。