The Reconfiguration of Political Landscape - Explaining Independent Candidates Lists in Elections to Municipal Councils in the Czech Republic

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The project focuses on an alternative form of representation on the local level which are independent (local) lists (ILLs). ILLs have been part of many established democracies as well as of new democracies in Central and Eastern Europe for some time, but their importance has grow...
Trvání projektu: 2020 - 2022
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Czech Green politics after two decades: the May 2010 general election

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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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Values and Electoral Decisions in the Czech Republic

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Authors: Matějů, Petr, Klára Vlachová
This article is an attempt to identify the role of politically relevant values and attitudes in voting behaviour in the Czech Republic. In view of the results of earlier analyses, which show there has been a process of intense crystallization of left–right political axis of...
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Přednášky prof. Da-chi Liao a prof. Samuel C. Y. Ku z Taiwanu

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V pondělí 21. října budou v Sociologickém ústavu přednášet zajímaví hosté z Taiwanu – prof. Da-chi Liao z Institute of Political Science, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, od 14.00 hodin, a prof. Samuel C. Y. Ku z Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages, Kaohsiung, od...
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Identity Formation of Elites in Old and New Member States (with a Special Focus on the Czech Elite)

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Authors: Mansfeldová, Zdenka, Barbora Špicarová Stašková
The article examines the perception of national and European identities from the viewpoint of political and economic elite. It examines the components of both identities, the relationship between national and European identities. The study is based on quantitative survey and comp...
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Noreena Heertz: The Silent Takeover. Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy

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Authors: Nešpor, Zdeněk R.
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The Role and Position of Committees of the House of Deputies of the Czech Republic in the Period of Transformation

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Authors: Rakušanová, Petra
The article provides analysis of the gradual institutionalization of the committees of the Czech Parliament between 1993 and 1999 and shows that in the committees, gradual expert and political professionalization of the deputies occurs ů deputies acquire a new type of supra-secto...
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Social Partnership in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic

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Authors: Čambáliková, Monika, Zdenka Mansfeldová
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Types of Non-electoral Political Participation in Europe

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Authors: Vlachová, Klára, Tomáš Lebeda
The authors describe what forms of political participation, outside the electoral process, the populations of twenty-one European countries tend to employ and to what degree. They identify three types of non-electoral political participation: active-conventional, active-demonstra...
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Social Partnership and Interest Representation in Transitory Society: The Czech Case

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Authors: Mansfeldová, Zdenka
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Parliamentary Activity, Re-Selection and the Personal Vote. Evidence from Flexible-List Systems

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Authors: Linek, Lukáš, Thomas Däubler, Love Christensen
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Fifth Workshop of Parliamentary Scholars and Parliamentarians

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Authors: Linek, Lukáš
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Why Czech Parliamentary party Groups Vote less Unitedly. The Role of Frequent Voting and Big Majorities in Passing Bills

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Authors: Linek, Lukáš, Petra Rakušanová
The text 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 th...
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The state of research on political parties

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Authors: Mansfeldová, Zdenka
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The Political Culture of Local Communities. The Case of Three Towns (In Czech)

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Authors: Kostelecký, Tomáš, Zdenka Vajdová
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Mitchell A. Orenstein: Out of the Red. Building Capitalism and Democracy in the Postcommunist Europe

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Authors: Nešpor, Zdeněk R.
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The Velvet Revolution and Modern Czech History in the Eyes of the Czech Population

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Authors: Šubrt, Jiří, Jiří Vinopal, Stanislav Hampl, Michal Pullmann
This paper systematically maps and analyses the opinions of the Czech public on the Velvet Revolution and the social situation in the periods before and after the revolution. It first focuses attention on the image of the Velvet Revolution within the context of Czech modern histo...
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Parties in the Parliament. Why, When and How do Parties Act in Unity? Parliamentary Party Groups in the Chamber of Deputies in the years 1998–2002

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Authors: Linek, Lukáš, Petra Rakušanová
The main objective of the work is to answer the question of how Czech MPs and PPGs makedecisions. Thus main concerns of the authors are issues of PPG unity, the adopted mechanismsof internal control and negotiation and, primarily, the factors that influence, structureand restrict...
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Searching for the Right Organization: Ideology and Party Structure in East-Central Europe

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Authors: Linek, Lukáš, Zsolt Enyedi
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 reso...
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Establishment of the Party System and the Party-Voter Linkages: the Case Study of the Czech Republic

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Authors: Rakušanová, Petra
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