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Authors: Lebeda, Tomáš, Klára Vlachová, Blanka Řeháková
The first Senate elections raised the question of the purpose of electing a representative body, whose existence have not been clearly explained or defended by its creators. The most common reason voters had for not participating in the 1996 Senate elections was their disagreemen...
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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: Mansfeldová, Zdenka, Aleš Kroupa (eds.)
The book gives empirically well-founded study of changes of political and legal framework of the Czech Republic, analysis of existing institutional structures for interest representation. It describes the situation at the moment of joining the European Union and changes which hap...
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Authors: Lebeda, Tomáš
This chapter examines the relation between the effect of the electoral system on the representation of the parties and candidates and the electoral behaviour of the voters in elections to the House of Deputies of the Czech Parliament, especially in the latest elections in 2006. I...
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Authors: Mansfeldová, Zdenka, Lukáš Linek (eds.)
The Czech political system is construed as a parliamentary democracy with a bicameral Parliament; the Parliament’s role is key even with regard to its role in creating other political institutions. The presented study deals successively with the legislative process, the rol...
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Authors: Řeháková, Blanka, Klára Vlachová
The article analyses two types of subjective mobility between 1988 and 1993. It asks how people evaluate the changes in their social status and economic situation and seeks to identify the links with certain objective social characteristics (which fix the position...
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Authors: Kunštát, Daniel
Eighteen scholars analysed elections into the Chamber of Deputies from different points of view. The first part of the publication is dedicated to the events that preceded the elections (primary elections within the parties, election campaign, and programmes of the parties). In t...
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Authors: Novák, Miroslav, Klára Vlachová
Work focuses on the testing and relevance of three cross-cutting cleavages among voters on the national and the local level. The tested lines include economic populism - market liberalism, libertarianism - authoritarianism, and religion and morality - secularity and tolerance. Th...
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Authors: Linek, Lukáš
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. Using the Czech Election Study of 2002 this research shows that estim...
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Authors: Smith, Michael L.
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Authors: Linek, Lukáš, Štěpán Pecháček
Political parties in the post-communist countries are said to focus on electoral strategies and not on organizational building. Based on the detailed research of Czech political parties, we argue that political parties facing an environment that was hostile to organised partisans...
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Authors: Brokl, Lubomír, Zdenka Mansfeldová
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Authors: Kostelecký, Tomáš, Šimon, Martin
The book chapter analyzes profound economic and political changes in Czech society after 1989 from spatial perspective. The Czech society was very egalitarian in socio-economic terms at the end of 1980’s. The economic transformation dramatically changed the institutional setting,...
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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: 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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