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Jakub Stauber is an assistant at the Institute of Political Studies, Charles University. His research focuses on political science and is particularly interested in party institutionalization and military expenditures. In his work, he has explored the impact of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict on military spending, analyzing how geographic proximity influences defense budgets. Additionally, he has examined the institutionalization of nationalized party systems in the Czech Republic.
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Influential individuals gaining political weight at the expense of their parties are succeeding. Through case studies of two Czech parties, we explore the role of personalised party leadership. The puzzling set of events that occurred when SPD reestablished itself in response to the internal crisis in USVIT makes these parties worthy of attention....
Defence effort is often discussed in terms of relative military spending – as % of GDP. The aggregate nature of this measure, however, hides important within-budget dynamics. Specifically, states have to make hard choices about distributing their spending among personnel and equipment expenditures. NATO has adopted a recommendation that 20% of the...
The Russo-Ukrainian conflict has shaken the European post-Cold War security order. In response, European leaders started to talk about the need to strengthen the defense of European nations. This article quantitatively analyses changes in military expenditures of European states in the aftermath of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. There are significan...
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)...
Using empirical data, this chapter compares Czech political parties in the period from 1996 to 2013 to examine the extent to which political parties established themselves as stable institutions in terms of internal and external characteristics. Further, it describes the main differences between newly established parties and those with a more stabl...
New nearly member-less entrepreneurial parties formed in a top-down fashion are often electorally successful, which is possible within a wider environment, where members are not necessary for their existence and success. We analyse such parties’ membership strategies in detail in the two cases Czech VV and ANO, aiming to explain the mechanisms and...
The concept of party system institutionalization is usually applied as an explanatory framework for the process during which inter-party competition exhibits the recognizable pattern of stabilization over time. Party system institutionalization is measured with indicators based on the patterns of stability in government formation and alternation. T...
The overall stability of the party system is usually studied on the basis of system-level aggregates such as electoral volatility or the effective number of political parties. Such an approach canbeproblematic, because it primarily measures just one dimension of stability, which is defined asthestabilityof electoral support. The article argues that...
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...
The latest development of the Czech party system is mainly characterized by increasing electoral support of genuinely new political parties, namely Věci Veřejné in 2010 and ANO in 2013. Such initial success has far reaching consequences to the development of internal organizational structure of new political parties. The article deals with phenomen...
The overall stability of party system is usually studied on the basis of system-level aggregates such as electoral volatility or effective number of political parties. Such approach can be problematic, because it primarily measures just one dimension of stability, which is defined as stability of electoral support. The presented paper argues that t...
The latest development of the Czech party system is mainly characterized by increasing electoral support of genuinely new political parties, namely Věci Veřejné in 2010 and ANO in 2013. Such initial success has far reaching consequences to the development of internal organizational structure of new political parties. The paper analyses risk factors...
