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This study investigates the effects of media presence on the performance of candidates in a flexible-list proportional representation (PR) system. Analyzing four parliamentary elections from 2010 to 2021 in the Czech Republic, this research extends previous findings that have focused primarily on Belgium. Our results confirm the presence of signifi...
This paper introduces a new Czech Political Candidate Dataset (CPCD), which compiles comprehensive data on all candidates who have run in any municipal, regional, national, and/or European Parliament election in the Czech Republic since 1993. For each candidate, the CPCD includes their first name, last name, age, gender, place of residence, univers...
The literature on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected vote choice provides evidence of both ‘rally-’round-the-flag’ effects and the influence of perceived government pandemic performance. However, this evidence concerns short-term effects. Much less is known about how COVID-19-related economic changes and government measures in response to the p...
Literature provides four basic theories to explain regional election results and how they differ from national patterns: authority of regional governments, ethnic or linguistic cleavages, congruence of national and regional electoral systems, and second-order election effects. The second-order national election theory explains why regional election...
Kniha analyzuje postoje českých občanů k sociálnímu státu v delší časové perspektivě (1996‒2006‒2016). Díky tomu mohou autoři systematicky prozkoumat důležité teoretické otázky, které v této knize strukturují do pěti hlavních výzkumných témat: 1. vývoj postojů k sociálnímu státu; 2. vývoj vztahu mezi socio-ekonomickým statusem a postoji k sociálním...
This paper analyzes electoral volatility in the 2020 Slovak elections at the level of individual voters using exit poll surveys. The availability of exit polls from the previous elections of 2012 and 2016 allows us to put the 2020 election in context and analyze the patterns (and deviances from them) observed across the three elections. Furthermore...
Citizen participation in the political process is a key tenet of democratic government. Using data from post-election surveys covering all post-communist elections and European Social Survey 2002-2014, this paper studies how political participation in the Czech Republic and Slovakia has been stratified based on educational attainment. Educational i...
In this article, we analyse how the degree of parliamentary activity affects both individual MPs’ performance in the candidate selection process within the party and their popularity with voters at the electoral stage. We expect that parliamentary work of MPs matters less for voters’ evaluations of MPs because of limited monitoring capacities and l...
The aim of this article is to analyse the personalisation of Czech vot-ers' behaviour during the last two decades. This study examines if the effect of party leaders on party choice has increased as the vote personalisation literature suggests. Alternative explanations of party choice emphasise the stable role of cleavages and left-right orientatio...
Since the early nineties it has been widely assumed that the (Czech) Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) will eventually disappear, as communist party supporters who are unique in terms of their age would eventually die out. To the surprise of many
commentators, there has been little evidence to support this ‘decline and disappearance’ th...
This article seeks to examine changes in the Czech party system competition between 2006 and 2014. It draws on Sani and Sartori’s concept of party competition, incorporating later findings on the nature of party competition to facilitate its application to fluid party systems. It conceptualises party competition as multi-dimensional and in terms of...
A common theme in studies of voter turnout in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is that the legacy of communism attenuates electoral participation. It is argued that socialization and the political habits that emerged under communism impeded democratic development by not motivating citizen activism. This paper examines this claim for voter turnout i...
The goal of this article is to analyse changes in public attitudes towards the political regime, political institutions, political actors and politics in general. For that purpose, four categories of attitudes are differentiated: democratic legitimacy, institutional disaffection, individual disaffection, and political discontent. The study aims at...
This study analyses electoral participation in the 2013 Chamber of Deputies election. The explanation of the electoral participation in 2013 election is compared to that of previous elections. Thanks to this strategy, it is possible to see whether there was any change in the effect of various resources or motivations. In addition to that, the study...
The aim of the paper is to analyze electoral volatility in the Czech Republic during the years
1990-2013; and to evaluate whether during that period electoral volatility decreased, increased
or was stable. The paper distinguishes between net and overall/gross volatility. The
first one uses aggregate level data from the electoral results and measure...
In the last two decades, turnout research has disintegrated into a plethora of studies which focus on partial aspects of turnout. The overall idea of why people vote has been lost. Despite extensive research on turnout, we know relatively little about why people vote. The aim of this text is to present and critically discuss basic theories that exp...
The aim of this paper is to analyze the social and class inequalities in turnout in the Czech Republic between 1990 and 2010. Thus, the study focuses on a description of the evolution of the relationship between turnout and key characteristics of socio-economic status: education, income and social class. This research utilizes a pooled cross-sectio...
The aim of the paper is to analyze the generational effects in voter turnout in the Czech Republic during the years 1990–2010; and to estimate the effect of generational replacement on turnout decline. Based on the assumptions of both the persistence and impressionable years’ models, this study examines six political generations associated with: th...
The representative vs responsible government thesis of Peter Mair argues that one of the main causes of the weakening of democracy is the increasing tension between the representative and governance functions performed by parties. The consequences of this widening gap in roles are increasingly evident, however, little is known about the intra-party...
This study introduces the concept of political disaffection, its measurement and operationalisation. Theoretically, this article builds on a differentiation between four basic types of orientations towards a political regime and its institutions: legitimacy of the regime, institutional disaffection, individual disaffection, and political dissatisfa...
The aim of this study is to explain why turnout in Czech general elections exhibited considerable variation between 1996 and 2010. Using valence theory this article explores the differential turnout in terms of the expected benefits of voting for a party on the basis of valence and policy considerations. This individual-level analysis of electoral...
National rather than regional party systems are the norm in most democratic states. This has been interpreted as meaning that most voters view inter-party competition in the same way. With a high level of party system nationalisation the relative proportion of electoral support attracted by parties across all constituencies tends to be very similar...
This study has two main aims. First, it explores the two main methods used in the Czech Republic to operationalize the concept of party identification. Second this study demonstrates the merits of both methods; and on the basis of this research proposes one of the party identification measures for use in future studies. This study builds on the cla...
The article examines four centre-right parties in East-Central Europe in order to assess the impact of ideology on party organization and revisit the thesis of organizational weakness in the region. The data collected indicate that, together with electoral success, inherited resources and national context, ideology does indeed shape the style of or...
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The aim of this study is to explore the sources of attitude constraints regarding the role of government in the economy, and to find out whether the sources of these constraints are the same as in Western democracies. Use is made of Converse’s approach to conceptualize attitude constraint where an individual’s belief system is seen to be a configur...
This study explores political awareness of Czech citizens from the point of view of both its distribution within the society, its dimensionality and sources, and its effect on political attitudes and their constraints. This topic is important for political representation. According to one of the most influential theories of political representation...
Political parties in the post-communist countries are said to focus on electoral strategies and not on organization building, which is thought to explain the low membership base of these parties. However, detailed examination of Czech political parties suggests that political parties facing an environment that was hostile to organized partisanship...
The first decade of the Czech democratic parliament has seen the development of a newly conceptualised, bicameral parliament in a new state. We identify general tendencies towards stabilisation similar to Western European parliamentary practices. Another trend is the gradual change from organising the parliament according to the majority principle...
The Czech Republic is notorious in Europe for the fact that there is no clear consensus on the benefits of EU accession or the future development of the European Union among the political elite. The level of public support for the integration project has also been quite low compared to other post-communist countries, especially before the accession...
There has been much scholarly debate over the measurement of party identification and the degree to which closeness to parties is an enduring stable attitude. This research investigates an important puzzle where two post-European election surveys undertaken during June 2004 yield significantly different estimates of citizen closeness to political p...
The article aims to explain voting unity in the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic based on data from the years 1998-2002. It introduces the basic terminology and theoretical framework used in literature on the behaviour of parties in parliament and the basic institutional rules that should result in the unity of political...
The article provides an overview of the surveys conducted among MPs of the Czech parliament between 1993 and 2005. It describes seven surveys conducted among MPs in the Chamber of Deputies and one survey among members of the Senate. Particularly in the early 1990s such surveys were conducted or at least run and financed by researchers from outside...
The results of the European Parliament elections in the Czech Republic were surprising for party participants, as well as for observers and students of political science, both from the viewpoint of election turnover, and success achieved by certain political parties. Even though the pre-election polls predicted election turnover of forty percent, n...
