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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 the Czech political spectrum, this paper aims to demonstrate the specific roles of declared and value-based left–right political orientations, the effects of external and internal political efficacy, the feelings of anomie, and the requ…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

Party identification in the Czech Republic: inter-party hostility and party preference

This study introduces basic models of voting behaviour and describes in greater detail the findings and starting points of the model of party identification. It recapitulates findings related to the voting behaviour in the Czech Republic throughout the nineties, as well as the reasons leading to the application of the party identification model to the analyses of voting behaviour. The influence of positive feelings toward the elected party and negative feelings toward the other parties are tested here.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

State and nation identity building in the 90s in the Central and Eastern Europe and its implications for the EU accession with the special focus on Czechia and Slovakia

Topics: Identity, Public Policy

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

The Endurance of the Czech Communist Party

The existence of an unreformed Communist Party stems from its historical roots in the country and the impact of the normalization period on the party’s membership base. However, in the post-communist period, we see that the party’s electoral fortunes have been tied to the position and politics of the ČSSD. Further, we have demonstrated that the KSČM has a loyal support base largely comprised of older voters. The KSČM voters’ views are distinct and further to the left of ČSSD voters, and as such, the …

Topics: Public Policy

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

Identity of non-self-evident nation: Czech national identity after the break-up of Czechoslovakia and before accession to the European Union

In this study the authors analyse Czech national identity after the split of Czechoslovakia and before accession to the European Union. National identity is understood here as a construct consisting of several elements, four of which the authors analyse: territorial identity (localism, regionalism, patriotism, and Europeanism), the image of the nation - the cultural nation (ethno-nation) and the political nation (state-nation)), national pride (in general, and in cultural performance and in the performance of …

Topics: European Union, Identity

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

The Chamber of Deputies Election, Czech Republic 2002

The study describes the background (including electoral system reform and campaign before election) and results of 2002 election to the Chamber of Deputies in the Czech Republic, and subsequent government formation.…

Topics: Public Policy, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

The parliamentary election in the Czech Republic, June 2006

The article is focused on election to the Chamber of Deputies of the parliament of the Czech Republic held in June 2006. It analyses political climate in preceding electoral term, pre-election situation, electoral systém, electoral campaign, election results, formation of government and evaluation of post-election situation.…

Topics: Public Policy, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

The parliamentary election in the Czech Republic, May 2010

In May, 2010, the Czech Republic held parliamentary elections. The two parties that partnered with the ODS after the 2006 elections in minority government, the KDU-ČSL and the Green Party, are now absent from parliament. Two new parties, TOP 09 and Public Affairs, sprung onto the scene with over 10% votes each. The two pillars of the party system, the ODS and the CSSD, lost substantial support in the election. The new majority government is comprised of the ODS, TOP 09 and Public Affairs.…

Topics: Public Policy, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

Relativní sociální, ekonomická a politická deprivace v České republice

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Hodnoty a politika

Relativní deprivace v zemích střední a východní Evropy

Topics: Social Inequalities, Transformation

Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

Legitimita demokracie a důvěra v instituce v České republice

This article deals with legitimacy of democracy and its relationship to trust in institutions in the Czech Republic. The author distinguishes between support for democracy as a form of government, and satisfaction with the development of democracy in a (particular) country, and searches for the factors which this depends on. As explanatory factors, the author first tests trust in institutions, then political culture and personal characteristics.…

Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion, Civil Society

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

Economic Justice in the Czech Republic, 1991-1995

The article examines the results of 1991 and 1995 ISJP (International Social Justice Project) surveys conducted in the Czech Republic. The surveys showed that among citizens of post-communist countries Czechs stood closest to the West in their profile of beliefs and attitudes about economic justice. In 1991, Czech citizens strongly resembled their counterparts in Western Europe with regard to support the key principles of capitalism and in their attitudes toward state intervention in economy.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Transformation

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Democratic Development, the Legitimacy of Democracy, Social Inequality, and Social Justice: The Case of the Czech Republic 1989-2000

Topics: Civil Society, Social Inequalities, Transformation

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

The Crystallization of Political Attitudes and Orientations

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Názorová krystalizace a levicové posuny

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Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Úvodem: sociální transformace jako obnova souvislostí

This mongrph is a result of the research, which took lace between 1991 and 1998and was focused primarily on pure sociological problems, concerning objectiveand subjective views on social stratification in the Czech Republic. It dealswith the development of social-economic status, perception fo social mobilityand social inequalities and with the formation of distributive justice norms.It contains also an analysis of the crystalisation of political attitudes, political orientations, of the role of values in voti…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Transformation

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Proměny české politické scény - strany a voliči

This article maps out the shifts in votes to the Parliament and the developing stability of voting behaviour in relation to the developing system of political parties. It confirmed suppositions that the Czech political scene is in a process of development which will lead to a change in the party system. It is nevertheless clear that the political scene here is moving closer to that common in western democracies. Voting preferences in the Czech Republic are becoming more stable. The number of people who change …

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Krystalizace politických postojů, politického spektra a role hodnot ve volebním rozhodování

The basic structural cleavages of post-communist society should, according to Kitschelt /1992/ be aligned along two separate axes: the left-right awis and that of libertarianism-authoritarianism. The party systems in central and Eastern Europe were expected to structurate themselves along axes ranging from authoritarians and opponents of the market at one end and liberals and supporters of the market at the other.Where economic development was already advanced, as in the Czech Republic, many political parties …

Topics: Value Orientations, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Otevřená nebo uzavřená společnost

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Topics: Social Inequalities, Transformation

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Values and Electoral Decisions in the Czech Republic

Party identification in the Czech Republic: inter-party hostility and party preference

State and nation identity building in the 90s in the Central and Eastern Europe and its implications for the EU accession with the special focus on Czechia and Slovakia

The Endurance of the Czech Communist Party

Identity of non-self-evident nation: Czech national identity after the break-up of Czechoslovakia and before accession to the European Union

The Chamber of Deputies Election, Czech Republic 2002

The parliamentary election in the Czech Republic, June 2006

The parliamentary election in the Czech Republic, May 2010

Relativní sociální, ekonomická a politická deprivace v České republice

Relativní deprivace v zemích střední a východní Evropy

Legitimita demokracie a důvěra v instituce v České republice

Economic Justice in the Czech Republic, 1991-1995

Democratic Development, the Legitimacy of Democracy, Social Inequality, and Social Justice: The Case of the Czech Republic 1989-2000

The Crystallization of Political Attitudes and Orientations

Názorová krystalizace a levicové posuny

Úvodem: sociální transformace jako obnova souvislostí

Proměny české politické scény - strany a voliči

Krystalizace politických postojů, politického spektra a role hodnot ve volebním rozhodování

Otevřená nebo uzavřená společnost

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