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The Czech Republic
The text is a regular contribution into the publication called Data Yearbook. It describes political changes in the Czech republic during the year 2009. The article focuses on such problems as European Parliament elections, the fall of the Topolánek government and formation of the Fischer government, and on the main issues of the Czech politics.…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
The Czech Republic
The text is a regular contribution into the publication called Data Yearbook. It describes political changes in the Czech republic during the year 2001. The article focuses in such problems as was the composition of government, relations between the Cabinet and the Parliament, institutional changes of the Constitution and of the electoral law, and on the main issues of the Czech politics.…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
The Czech Republic
The text is a regular contribution into the publication called Data Yearbook. It describes political changes in the Czech republic during the year 2001. The article focuses in such problems as elections to the Chamber of Deputies, Senate and boards of municipalities, the composition of government, relations between the Cabinet and the Parliament, institutional changes of the Constitution and of the electoral law, and on the main issues of the Czech politics.…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
The Czech Republic
The text is a regular contribution into the publication called Data Yearbook. It describes political changes in the Czech republic during the year 2005. The article focuses on such problems as changes in the government, party politics, and on the main issues of the Czech politics. …
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
Surveys of MPs and Senators in the Parlament of the Czech Republic between 1993 and 2005
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 and one survey among members of the Senate. These surveys are characterised from the perspective of the content of the observed variables and from the perspective of representativeness, which is demonstrated by the percentage of MPs taking part in the survey. The article also contains references to texts that have made use of the data provided by the …
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Sociological Data
Why Czech Parliamentary party Groups Vote less Unitedly. The Role of Frequent Voting and Big Majorities in Passing Bills
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 the basic institutional rules that should result in the unity of political parties in the Czech Parliament. Although the institutional incentives are similar to those in Western European countries, they do not secure the same level of voting…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
Party System Nationalization and Non-Uniform Vote Switching: Evidence from the Czech Republic
National rather than regional party systems are the norm in most democratic states.The link between party system nationalization and the individual voter has not been examined in the same detail. Here this link is explored using an ecological inference analysis of vote switching. This research, using the Czech Republic as a case study, shows that the presence of high party system nationalization evident across a pair of elections may be associated with non-uniform electoral swings.…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
The Parliament of the Czech Republic, 1993 - 1998: Factbook
The topic of this book is analyse of activity of the Czech Parliament in first and second electoral period of the House of Deputies (1993-1996 and 1996-1998) and first electoral period of the Senate (1996-1998). The publication is distributed into parts, four chapters and one attachment.…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
České legislativní plánování v letech 1998–2002: dělba kompetencí, termínový řád, pole prosazování politik, koncepce proměny práva
The aim of the study was to reveal the degree to which government legislative planning fulfilled the following coordinative tasks: distributing legislative tasks and establishing a timetable for their completion balancing political interests and transforming the legal code during harmonising Czech law with ES law and reforming the Czech legal code. This empirical study has an investigative character. It reconstructs the process of drawing up the legislative plans (1998-2002), the preparation of the new legisla…
Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes, Public Policy
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
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 the behaviour of individual MPs and PPGs. The work focuses on the 3rd electoralterm of the Chamber of Deputies (1998–2002) in some cases a comparison with previousterms is provided.In the first chapter the authors briefly outline th…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
České politické strany a jejich členové. K postupné proměně charakteru členství
Czech political parties have built their organisations since the beginning of the 1990s in an environment that was hostile to organised partisanship. They face a lack of interest among citizens in joining political parties, which can be seen in the continually falling number of members in the case of KDU-ČSL and KSČM, and in the case of ČSSD and ODS in the stagnation of the number of members since their inception. Political parties have adapted their organisational strategies to these trends and now they st…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
Účast při volbách do Evropského parlamentu v roce 2004 v České republice
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, attitudes towards the EU integration and the impact of electoral campaign and media. All these sources prove to have an impact on turnout.…
Topics: European Union, Media, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
A választási részvétel és a szavaoi dilemma: egy új megközelítés
The text utilizes voter’s dilemma approach (VDA) to electoral participation in the analysis of turnout in the Czech Republic and the Netherlands. This text asks what the contribution of VDA to an individual-level explanation of participation in the European and national parliamentary elections might be, over and above the impact of explanatory variables contained in socio-demographic, political, campaign involvement and European attitude blocks. …
Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
The Impact of the EU on the Czech Party System
The text focuses on the impact of European integration on Czech party system. European integration has undoubtedly influenced Czech political parties, but the influence has neither been destabilizing nor instrumental in the formation of new parties. European issues, both in terms of support for joining the EU and in relation to attitudes about the desired speed of European integration, have mapped on to the dominant left-right cleavage in Czech politics. This covariance works at the mass level, but it does not…
Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
What Can Ecological Inference Tell Us about the Second-Order-Elections-Thesis in the Czech Republic and Slovakia?
The Second-Order Election Thesis (SOET) is one of a family of multi-level electoral behaviour theories that was specifically developed to explain changes in voting behaviour in general and European elections. Our analyses indicate that the patterns of voting behaviour predicted by the SOET are mediated by a number of national and regional factors.…
Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
Czech Republic: Is It Possible To Buy Political Stability?
This key volume explores how party and campaign finance in post-communist countries have influenced the development of the party system. Based on an analysis of nine case studies, the work examines how the implementation of public finance affects the pattern of party competition and the role of money in elections. One of the lessons from the post-communist experience is that, no matter how well-designed, public finance systems are subject to constant revision as parties, politicians and business elites exploit…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
The Parliament of the Czech Republic, 1993–2004
The sudden collapse of communism stimulated both the rapid emergence of fledgling democracies and scholarly attention to the post-communist transition. These newly democratized parliaments have been described as "parliaments in adolescence".This book identifies six parliaments which exemplify the wide range of developments in the new post-communist political systems, from the stable consolidated democracies to the less stable and more authoritarian states, within which their respective parliaments function.Fin…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Transformation
The More Parties Vote and the Bigger Their Majority is, the Less United They Are
The text aims to explain the voting unity in the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic building upon data from the years 1998ů2002. The article presents basic institutional rules which should lead to the unity of political parties in the Czech Parliament and then data measuring the unity of Czech parliamentary party groups. The initial presupposition that institutional factors found within the parliament and political parties will result in an increased unity of PPGs in the Czech Republi…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
Stabilní postoj nebo konzistentní odpovídání? Prozkoumání stability stranické identifikace v ČR
The chapter analyses stability of answers to party identification question using the panel survey. The basic hypothesis stemming from the classical conceptualization of the party identification is its stability of the intensity and the direction. Although on the aggregate level the stability is high, at the individual level there is quite high inconsistency in answering the question in around 30 per cent of cases. …
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
Volby do Evropského parlamentu 2004 - analýza volební účasti a stranické podpory v České republice
This study analyses the reasons behind the low electoral participation and behind voter mobility, and looks at the consequences these changes hold for the electoral gains of individual parties. Using data for the Czech Republic the author indicates some socio-demographic factors and some political attitudes that can be linked to electoral participation and highlights some of the factors that cause voters to participate less in elections. The study also focuses on voter mobility and explains these shifts on the…
Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
Vazby mezi politickými postoji a jejich závislost na politické informovanosti (a zapojení do politiky)
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. The study shows that Czech citizens know most about local and national politics and political players, and are least informed about international affairs. Moreover, the distribution of political knowledge is systematically biased and this results in specific forms of political inequality. These …
Topics: Value Orientations, Politics and Political Attitudes
Politická informovanost občanů: teorie, měření a role při zkoumání politických postojů
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. The study shows that Czech citizens know most about local and national politics and political players, and are least informed about international affairs. Moreover, the distribution of political knowledge is systematically biased and this results in specific forms of political inequality. These …
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
Základní charakteristiky členské základny KDU-ČSL
This study describes the socio-demographic structure of the membership base of the Christian Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People’s Party (KDU-ČSL) and the party’s voters. It is based on a questionnaire survey carried out among the party’s membership base in the middle of 2005. Only part of the survey’s results is used in this study. The membership base is examined according to when member-respondents joined the party and where they reside – Bohemia or Moravia. The analysis focuses mainly on…
Topics: Sociological Data, Public Policy
Socio-demografická struktura poslanců a její vliv na politické postoje
The Chapter deals with the socio-demographic structure of the MPs. It focuses on the age, sex, education and occupation before the election and presents them from the point of view of the electoral terms and political parties. Finally, it analyses the effect of those features on the political attitudes and positioning of the seats within the Chamber.…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
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