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Authors: Mansfeldová, Zdenka, Petra Rakušanová Guasti
The objective of the introductory chapter is to summarise the knowledge contained in literature to date about the Czech Parliament, inform about the existing surveys done there, touch upon the theoretical framework of the submitted publications based on the theory of representati...
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Authors: Poláková, Markéta, Kostelecký, Tomáš
The article focuses on an analysis of the professions of Czech deputies in the interwar period and in the period after 1989. Based on the theoretical framework of representation we assume that voting decisions are influenced not only by party electoral programs, but also by the i...
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Authors: Lebeda, Tomáš, Jindřich Krejčí
The chapter provides an overview of Czech election survey research and comments the issues relating to the quality and the use of results. It is focused on the pre-elections polls conducted before 2006 elections. It evaluates the quality of survey agencies work and (in)correctnes...
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Authors: Lukáš, Linek, Pat Lyons
Text analyses turnout in European Parliament elections in the Czech Republic using individual-level data from post-election survey. It searches into the four main sources of electoral turnout in European parliament elections: socio-demographic characteristics, political attitudes...
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Authors: Jehlička, Petr, Tomáš Kostelecký, Daniel Kunštát
This article examines the electoral results of the Czech Green Party in the 2010 elections to the lower house of the Czech Parliament, placing those results in both historical and sociological perspective. In particular, the article analyzes the social bases of Green Party suppor...
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Authors: Mansfeldová, Zdenka
The decline of electoral participation in national parliamentary election and election to the European parliament is an important phenomenon, especially from the point of view of enlarged Europe. The contribution evaluates different analysis and tries to stress weak points.
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Authors: Brokl, Lubomír, Zdenka Mansfeldová, Aleš Kroupa
The study presents the results of a survey of parliamentary deputies which is part of an anticipatedwider analysis of the place and role of Parliament in the transformation of the political system from anauthoritarian regime to a democracy, in the individual stages of this transf...
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Authors: Linek, Lukáš, Pat Lyons
This book explains why Czech voters choose specific parties. The focus is on the long-term determinants of electoral behaviour (cleavages, left-right orientation, and party identification) and on four parties with long-term representation in the Czech parliament: ČSSD, KDU-ČSL, K...
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Authors: Šimon, Martin
Historický atlas obyvatelstva českých zemí je jedním z prvních děl hodnotících prostorové aspekty téměř stoletého vývoje obyvatelstva na dnešním území Česka. V celkem dvanácti kapitolách jsou ve vývojovém srovnání představena témata jako migrace, demografická, ekonomická a kultur...
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Authors: Šimon, Martin
Phantom Borders: less know data sources for understanding elections. The aim of this article is to report about phantom borders as a unique type of border. Current research in political geography and history shows that even no longer existing legal and political borders can still...
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Authors: Linek, Lukáš, Štěpán Pecháček
This chapter studies the influence of European integration on political parties, the party system and the electoral behaviour of the Czech citizens. Europeanisation is an external factor that always emerges when something in a domestic political system is influenced by something...
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Authors: Linek, Lukáš, Pat Lyons
Text analyses reasons of abstaintion in 2006 election to the Chamber of Deputies. The main source of abstaintion lies in the feeling that people have no say in the political process. The abstaintion is mainly voluntary and is of long-term nature. Electoral participation is connec...
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Authors: Vajdová, Zdenka
The electoral programmes of the political parties and the Government declaration from 2006 were subjected to content analysis. The aim was to find the selected key words in the documents as cooperation, trust, cohesion etc. that point to a respect to the principles of democratic...
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Authors: Vlachová, Klára
This study introduces basic models of voting behaviour - sociological, social-psychological and economic ones. It describes in more details the findings and starting points of thesocial-psychological model (or the model of party idetification). The study recapitulates the hithert...
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Authors: Kostelecký, Tomáš
The article deals with voting patterns of major political parties in the parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic between 1996 and 2006. The results of analyses prove that major Czech political parties have quite stable voting patterns. The most of spatial variation in elect...
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Authors: Linek, Lukáš
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Authors: Kostelecký, Tomáš
The main objective of this book is to analyse the processes of cooperation, partnership and participation in local public administration. The authors ask: How local actors understand to these processes, what are main assets and shortcomings of mentioned processes? The book contai...

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