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Introduction
Daniel does research in Comparative Politics, Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior and Political Organizations and Parties. He was a principal researcher under the project "Theoretical and Practical Aspects of the Emergence of New Political Parties in the Czech Republic".
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October 2021 - present
University College Prague
Position
- Lecturer
Education
October 2023 - September 2026
September 2015
Institute of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague
Field of study
- Political Science /the thing is currently under investigation of the Municipal Court in Prague/
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Publications (32)
Political parties have always been tied to the technological innovations of the time in which they existed. The gradual development of information technology, specifically the Internet and social media, has been accompanied by a gradual change in the functioning of political parties. The change includes the first websites, social media accounts, th...
This article is an analysis of the establishment and subsequent role of the
HLAS-Social Democracy (HLAS-SD) party on the Slovak political scene with
a focus on its position in the system of cooperative-competitive interactions
in the early elections to the National Council of the Slovak Republic in September
2023. First, it examines the new party i...
The phenomenon of digitalization naturally also affects the functioning and decision-making of political actors. In recent years, even the Chinese social network TikTok has experienced an unprecedented rise among all social networks. Although there are opinions that TikTok de facto devalues politics, political actors have a completely different att...
The 2023 elections to the National Council of the Slovak Republic were closely followed as first-order elections. After the 2020 elections, a coalition government was characterized by little stability. It ultimately led to the government's fall and the rise of a caretaker government, which led the country to early elections in September 2023. In th...
The 2024 presidential elections in Slovakia were, after the 2023 parliamentary elections, another crucial indicator of where the country will go. From the nine candidates, the two strongest – Peter Pellegrini and Ivan Korčok – finally advanced to the second round. This political battle significantly reflected the divided Slovak political scene and...
Political actors have gradually discovered online communication but have only sometimes used these technologies effectively. Since 2006, the so-called Pirate Parties have been gradually taking shape in Europe, which are close to the Internet and the principles of direct democracy. In 2009, the Czech Pirate Party was formed on the basis of an Intern...
The article aims to briefly present France’s path to becoming the world’s top beet sugar producer. The text seeks an answer to the development of the French sugar industry, especially in recent years. France has been making its way among the leading beet sugar producers since the beginning of the 19th century. After the Industrial Revolution, the 1...
Otázkou pro akademickou, stranickou i širší společenskou debatu je dopad moderních komunikačních technologií na demokratičnost, legitimitu a rozhodovací procesy uvnitř i vně politických stran. Vedle benefitů v podobě zefektivnění, zrychlení a zvýšení transparentnosti vnitrostranických procesů je třeba mít na paměti rizika, jako jsou problémy legiti...
This article explores press coverage of sport-related violence in the Czech Republic by applying Stuart Hall’s analytical framework to articles published in selected newspapers between 1998 and 2017. Covering a gap in the current scholarship, this case study shows that in the Czech Republic there are similar trends to the ones present in other Euro...
The digitalization of political parties and modern technologies are the reflections of the 21st century and gradual modernization. The degree of digitalization of individual parties varies significantly across countries and party systems. In the case of the Czech party system, it can be said that the most digitalized party has been the Czech Pirate...
The elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic 2021 were perceived as one of the key events of the year, which will decide on the further direction of the relatively polarized country. According to continuously published pre-election surveys, significant changes in the distribution of forces within the party system...
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted many areas of human activity, including the political sphere. Political parties had to respond to this situation, especially with restrictions limiting significant actions. One integral part of intra-party life is party congresses , postponed or started online. The pandemic situation has thus accelerated moderniza...
Emerging in the mid-2000s, Pirate parties were the first parties to make the Internet the centre of party politics and party organisation. This chapter reviews the literature on Pirate parties and discusses the legacy of Pirate parties in the use of digital tools for party organisation and internal party decision-making that later inspired new digi...
The Covid-19 has negatively changed many things in various ways, but it also forced individuals and groups to adopt innovative solutions. In the case of political parties, the pandemic practically prohibited classical gathering such as party members meetings. It also affected the electoral campaign as well as party congresses. In some cases, it was...
Pirate parties are a phenomenon that has existed formally for almost fifteen years. This group of parties corresponds very well programmatically to the much broader concept of post-material values, which was formulated several decades earlier. Issues of intellectual property, privacy and data security, Internet freedom or a transparent political sy...
This article aims to analyse changes of the Slovak party system from 1992 to the last parliamentary elections of 2020. These elections were the eighth elections in the history of independent Slovakia. There are discussions about stability or instability of individual development stages of the party system. In the article, Attention is paid to chang...
The right to vote is one of the fundamental rights of citizens in democratic countries. In the United States of America, however, this action is preceded by the obligation to register. Election registrations are still seen as a limiting element of electoral law. This work aims to find out how the process of registration changed in the past. Another...
New political parties are an object of interest in many studies, either in the form of theoretical anchoring to relevant concepts or in the search for further theoretical overlaps. However, there is not a general agreement in political parties’ research on how exactly to classify a new political party and how precisely newness is measured and captu...
Der vorliegende Artikel ist eine qualitative Fallstudie über die Entste-hung, Entwicklung und Ausformung der tschechischen politischen Bewegung ANO 2011von ihrer Gründung 2012 bis zur Gegenwart. Analysiert wird ihre Rolle als neue Erschei-nung im tschechischen Parteiensystem, dabei wird auf die europäische Dimension einigerAspekte der Aktivitäten v...
High level of distrust in political elites accompanied with a strong perception of corruption in Czech Republic has led to an increase of several anti-corruption nongovernmental organisations' activities. About 18 organisations have created in 2013 an open coalition and established a project called "Reconstruction of the State" (Rekonstrukce státu)...
The elections to the Chamber of Deputies in October 2017 were a turning point for the Czech Pirate Party (called "Piráti"). It was the first time since establishing the party in 2009 that the Pirates entered the lower house of the Czech Parliament. They took the third place with 10.79 % votes and won 22 seats out of 200. Their main programme points...
New political parties can be essential holders of party systems’ change. A lot of scholars underline this reality. In fact, it is often not enough only to establish a new political subject. There is a significant relationship between a new party emergence and the subsequent electoral success, which is often an overlooked research dimension. This ar...
The emergence and success of new political parties are one of the typical reflections of the dynamics of party system development. This phenomenon can also be observed in the context of gradual changes in the Slovak party system. Within it, the tension between established and new entities is evident and continuously transforms the overall character...
This article aims to main shifts of German party system since 1990 with a specific emphasis on Bundestag elections 2017. The main development and changes that can be explicitly tra- ced in the survey period will be described here. An important question is how German party system has modified not only during last years but primarily after recent ele...
The emergence and success of new and populist political parties are visible across Europe nowadays; Germany is not an exception to this trend. There is possible to see an apparent breakthrough of Alternative for Germany (AfD) in German general elections 2017 which has visibly changed the German party system. After the previous performing in general...
New political parties can be important holders of change or representatives of poorly accented social or political problems. The success of such groups may lead to more or less fundamental transformation of the entire party system. The aim of this study is to focus on two successful new entities, which recorded a breakthrough in elections to the Ch...
High level of distrust in political elites accompanied with strong perception of corruption has led to the increase of several anti-corruption non-governmental organizations’ (NGOs) activities. About 18 organizations has created open coalition and established project called “Reconstruction of the State” (Rekonstrukce státu). This project is oriente...
