Rostoucí sociální nerovnosti ve volební účasti v Česku v letech 1990–2010

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-sectional
post-election survey dataset from the Czech Republic fielded over two decades and employs standard statistical methods,
i.e. contingency tables and convergence models, to analyze change in turnout among population subgroups. There are
signs of a gradual crystallization of both social and class inequalities in electoral participation. Convergence models reveal a
linear increase in educational and class inequalities in turnout. In the case of income, however, this study finds evidence of a
crystallization of income based inequalities in participation rather than a growth in inequalities per se.